The Effect of Intramolecular Transfer to Polymer on Stationary Free-Radical Polymerization of Alkyl Acrylates, 3 - Consideration of Solution Polymerization up to High Conversions

Autor: Christopher Bruni, Robin A. Hutchinson, John R. Richards, Anatoly N. Nikitin, George A. Kalfas
Rok vydání: 2009
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Zdroj: Macromolecular Theory and Simulations. 18:247-258
ISSN: 1022-1344
DOI: 10.1002/mats.200900009
Popis: The kinetics of butyl acrylate solution polymerization up to high conversion are studied both experimentally and theoretically. New expressions taking into account both inter- and intramolecular transfer to polymer are derived for polymerization rate, average chain-length and branching level. These expressions are used for comparative analysis of these two chain transfer events and for evaluation of the backbiting rate coefficient, k bb , and the constant of chain transfer to solvent (xylene), C trS . Using batch experiments performed at 50, 60 and 70 °C, the Arrhenius parameters for k bb and C trS are estimated to be, respectively, A(k bb ) = (7.4 ± 1.5) x 10 7 s -1 , E a (k bb ) = (32.7±0.5) kJ. mol -1 and A(C trS )= 10.5 ±3.5, E a (C trS ) = (26.9 ± 1.9) kJ. mol -1 .
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