ZHANG Xiaojuan, GAO Jing, LUO YingWu, LI Bogeng. INFLUENCE OF MONOMER COMPOSITION ON THE CHAIN TRANSFER COEFFICIENT IN METHYL METHACRYLATE/BUTYL ACRYLATE RAFT COPOLYMERIZATION. [J]. Acta Polymerica Sinica (1):83-87(2008)
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ZHANG Xiaojuan, GAO Jing, LUO YingWu, LI Bogeng. INFLUENCE OF MONOMER COMPOSITION ON THE CHAIN TRANSFER COEFFICIENT IN METHYL METHACRYLATE/BUTYL ACRYLATE RAFT COPOLYMERIZATION. [J]. Acta Polymerica Sinica (1):83-87(2008) DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1105.2008.00083.
INFLUENCE OF MONOMER COMPOSITION ON THE CHAIN TRANSFER COEFFICIENT IN METHYL METHACRYLATE/BUTYL ACRYLATE RAFT COPOLYMERIZATION
The bulk copolymerization of butyl acrylate (BA) and methyl methacrylate (MMA) in the presence of the RAFT agent with Z=—CH2C6H5 and 2
2′Azobis(isobutyronitrile)(AIBN) as an initiator was carried out at 60℃.The chain transfer coefficients (Ctr) at different monomer compositions were determined by the GPC peak resolution method.In the BA homopolymerization
Ctr was up to 116 while it was about 0.1 in the MMA homopolymerization.Since Ctr was too low
the homopolymerization of MMA mediated by the RAFT agent was out of control.In the copolymerization systems
Ctr showed a nonlinear decrease with the increasing of MMA compositions.When a small fraction of BA was added to an MMA polymerization system
the polymerization became well controlled with PDI around 1.2 at the end of the polymerization.The changing trend of Ctr with monomer compositions well explained the profiles of the molecular weight and its distribution against conversion with different monomer compositions.