Vanadium alkoxide catalyzed polymerization of vinyl chloride |
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| Authors: | Yoshikatsu Tsuchiya Kiyoshi Endo |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Applied Chemistry and Bioengineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka City University, Sugimoto, Sumiyoshi‐ku, Osaka 558‐8585, Japan |
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| Abstract: | The polymerization of vinyl chloride (VC) with vanadium complex/alkylaluminum catalyst was investigated. In the case of polymerization with vanadium oxytriethoxide (VO(OEt)3), poly(vinyl chloride) was obtained in a good yield. The effect of cocatalyst, solvent, and cocatalyst/precatalyst ratio was observed. The structure of the polymer obtained with VO(OEt)3/i‐Bu3Al catalyst consisted of regular head‐to‐tail sequence and isobutyl chain‐end structure. VO(OEt)3/alkylaluminum catalyst was able to copolymerize VC with styrene, 1‐butene, methyl methacrylate, and methyl acrylate. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem, 2011 |
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| Keywords: | addition polymerization catalysts copolymerization poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) |
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