Artigo Revisado por pares

Anionic polymerization of styrene

1961; Elsevier BV; Volume: 2; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/0032-3861(61)90019-2

ISSN

1873-2291

Autores

Cyril Stretch, G. C. Allen,

Tópico(s)

Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials

Resumo

Polymerization of styrene initiated by sodium naphthalene in dioxane solution yields polymers with sharp molecular weight distributions and degrees of polymerization in agreement with Szwarc's mechanism. At complex concentrations of 10−3 mole l.−1 the half-life of the reaction is approximately 2 min at room temperature. The overall activation energy is approximately 9 kcal mole−1. The reaction rate is first order with respect to monomer and directly proportional to the concentration of complex. Anionic propagation appears to be the rate-controlling reaction.

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