| Abstract: | Kinetics of grafting reactions of styrene to preirradiated cellulose acetate have been studied by labeling the active sites with bromine atoms. The dilution of styrene monomer with methanol affected grafting reactions remarkedly: e.g., as the concentration of methanol in monomer solutions increased, the growth rates of individual graft radicals decreased while the average lifetimes increased. The integrated amounts of active sites which participated in grafting reactions were also affected by the constitution of monomer solutions and varied roughly in proportion to the extents of swelling of cellulose acetate. Grafting yields for styrene/methanol = 1/1 were higher than for 3/1 and 1/3 throughout the duration of grafting reactions, which is due not only to the high molecular weight of graft chains but also to the large number of graft chains for the 1/1 system compared to the other systems. |
