Title: Propagation Kinetics of Isoprene-Glycidyl Methacrylate Copolymerizations Investigated via PLP-SEC.
Authors: Brandl, Florian; Drache, Marco; Schier, Jan E. S.; Nentwig, Tristan; Contreras‐López, David; Saldívar‐Guerra, Enrique; Hutchinson, Robin A.; Beuermann, Sabine
Abstract: Pulsed-laser polymerization combined with polymer analysis by NMR and size-exclusion chromatography is used to study the radical copolymerization kinetics of isoprene (IP) with glycidyl methacrylate (GMA). The copolymer is characterized by a close-to-alternating microstructure, with the addition of IP leading to a significant decrease in the composition-averaged propagation rate coefficient. A rigorous fitting strategy is developed to fit a mixed penultimate model to the data, with the selectivity of the IP, but not the GMA, macroradical dependent on the penultimate unit.
Subjects: COPOLYMERIZATION kinetics; METHACRYLATES; ISOPRENE; NUCLEAR magnetic resonance; CHROMATOGRAPHIC analysis; MICROSTRUCTURE
Publication: Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 2017, Vol 38, Issue 14, pn/a
ISSN: 1022-1336
Publication type: Academic Journal
DOI: 10.1002/marc.201700105

Propagation Kinetics of Isoprene-Glycidyl Methacrylate Copolymerizations Investigated via PLP-SEC.

Brandl, Florian; Drache, Marco; Schier, Jan E. S.; Nentwig, Tristan; Contreras‐López, David; Saldívar‐Guerra, Enrique; Hutchinson, Robin A.; Beuermann, Sabine