Alcohols, copolymerization with

As shown in Fig. 8, similar tendencies were detected considering the allyl alcohol copolymerization with ethylene, butadiene or styrene. Here, different curve progressions are observed depending on the types of comonomers, their ratio in the precursor mixture, and the plasma parameters. These deviations were attributed to the different tendencies to undergo a copolymerization, for example expressed in copolymerization parameters, which are also valid for the plasma-initiated gasphase copolymerization. 

As shown in Fig. 18.4, similar tendencies were found for the aUyl alcohol copolymerization with ethylene, butadiene, or styrene. Here, the curves are observed to progress from a parabolic (ethylene) to a nearly linear correlation (butadiene) and to an anti-parabolic behavior (styrene) between measured OH group concentrations and the stoichiometry of the precursor mixture. 

Table 10.25. MA-Allyl Alcohol Copolymerization With Other Donor...

Propylene can be polymerized alone or copolymerized with other monomers such as ethylene. Many important chemicals are based on propylene such as isopropanol, allyl alcohol, glycerol, and acrylonitrile. Chapter 8 discusses the production of these chemicals. U.S. production of proplylene was approximately 27.5 billion lbs in 1997. ... 

These compds may be modified by monocar-boxy lie acids or poly hydroxy alcohols. This definition includes the polycarbonates (qv), which are a well-defined segment of the general class of polyesters. Unsaturated polyesters, which are produced when any of the reactants contain non-aromatic unsaturation, can be cross-linked or copolymerized with an un-saturated copolymerizable monomer. The formulas and properties of the class polyester are as varied and extensive as the reactants themselves. For specific information on the various sub-classes and sub-sub classes, the following refs should be consulted 9, 10, II, 16a, 17,18,... 

The synthesis of PDMS macromonomers with vinyl silane end-groups and their free-radical copolymerization with vinyl acetate, leading to poly(vinyl acetate)-PDMS graft copolymers, was described 346). The copolymers produced were later hydrolyzed to obtain poly(vinyl alcohol)-PDMS graft copolymers. 

Uses Copolymerized with methyl acrylate, methyl methacrylate, vinyl acetate, vinyl chloride, or 1,1-dichloroethylene to produce acrylic and modacrylic fibers and high-strength fibers ABS (acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene) and acrylonitrile-styrene copolymers nitrile rubber cyano-ethylation of cotton synthetic soil block (acrylonitrile polymerized in wood pulp) manufacture of adhesives organic synthesis grain fumigant pesticide monomer for a semi-conductive polymer that can be used similar to inorganic oxide catalysts in dehydrogenation of tert-butyl alcohol to isobutylene and water pharmaceuticals antioxidants dyes and surfactants. 

LAOs are copolymerized with polyethylene to form linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE). 1-Hexene and 1-octene are especially useful for this purpose. LLDPE accounts for the largest use (31%) of LAOs, while detergent alcohols (23%), lubricants and lube oil additives (17%), and 0x0 alcohols for plasticizers (10%) are other important uses. 

This method works very well for reactive glycosyl acceptors such as primary alcohols. It can be carried out without affecting other acid sensitive functionalities including acetonides and even orthoesters. Nishimura and co-workers successfully employed this method to prepare the ttisaccharide monomer 344 (Scheme 8.107). After deprotection, the product was copolymerized with acrylamide to give a biologically interesting glycoprotein model. 

Sakurada, I., T. Okasa, Hatakeyama, and F. Kimura. Radiation-induced graft copolymerization onto cellulose and polyvinyl alcohol fibers with binary mixtures of comonomers. J. Polymer Sci. C 4, 1233 (1964). 

Copolymerization. Vinyl chloride can be copolymerized with a variety of monomers. Vinyl acetate, the most important commercial comonomer, is used to reduce crystallinity, winch aids fusion and allows lower processing temperatures. Copolymers are used in flooring and coatings. This copolymer sometimes contains maleic add or vinyl alcohol (hydrolyzed from the poly(vinyl acetate ) to improve the coating s adhesion to other materials, including metals, Copolymers with vinylidene chloride are used as barrier films and coatings. Copolymers of vinyl chlonde with acrylic esters in latex from are used as film formers in paint, nonwoven fabric binders, adhesives, and coatings. Copolymers with olefins improve thermal stability and melt flow, but at some loss of heat-deflection temperature,... 

Ferulic acid, a phenolic acid that can be found in rapeseed cake, has been used in the synthesis of monomers for ADMET homo- and copolymerization with fatty acid-based a,co-dienes [139]. Homopolymerizations were performed in the presence of several ruthenium-based olefin metathesis catalysts (1 mol% and 80°C), although only C5, the Zhan catalyst, and catalyst M5i of the company Umicore were able to produce oligomers with Tgs around 7°C. The comonomers were prepared by epoxidation of methyl oleate and erucate followed by simultaneous ring opening and transesterification with allyl alcohol. Best results for the copolymerizations were obtained with the erucic acid-derived monomer, reaching a crystalline polymer (Tm — 24.9°C) with molecular weight over 13 kDa. 

Such hydrophilic macromonomers (DPn=7-9) were radically homopolymer-ized and copolymerized with styrene [78] using AIBN as an initiator at 60 °C in deuterated DMSO in order to follow the kinetics directly by NMR analysis. The macromonomer was found to be less reactive than styrene (rM=0.9 for the macromonomer and rs=1.3 for styrene). Polymerization led to amphiphilic graft copolymers with a polystyrene backbone and poly(vinyl alcohol) branches. The hydrophilic macromonomer was also used in emulsion polymerization and copolymerized onto seed polystyrene particles in order to incorporate it at the interface. 

The technique has been recently extended to polar media, especially alcohols and their mixtures with water as a continuous phase. Kobayashi et al. [104-107] have reported that poly(2-oxazoline) macromonomers such as 34 and 35 are very effective for the dispersion copolymerization with styrene, MMA, and N-vinyl-formamide in methanol, ethanol, and mixtures of these alcohols with water. They reported that the particle size decreased with increasing initial macromonomer concentration and that poly(2-oxazoline) macromonomers graft-copoly-merized are concentrated on the particle surface to act as steric stabilizers. 

Styrene can be copolymerized with many monomers. The following monomers can be used along with styrene in the manufacture of food contact materials a-methylsty-rcne, vinyltoluene, divinylbenzene, acrylonitrile, ethyleneoxide, butadiene, fumaric and maleic acid esters of the mono functional saturated aliphatic alcohols C1-C8, acrylic acid ester and methacrylic acid, maleic acid anhydride, methylacrylamide-methylol ether, vinylmethyl ether, vinylisobutyl ether. Styrene and/or a-methylstyrene and/or vinyltoluene should be the main mixture component in every case. 

Vinyl chloride can be copolymerized with a series of monomers Vinylidene chloride, trans-dichloroethylene, vinylesters of aliphatic carboxylic acid (C2-C18), acrylic acid esters, methacrylic and/or maleic acid as well as fumaric acid with mono-functional aliphatic saturated alcohols (Cj-C18), mono-functional aliphatic unsaturated alcohols (C8—C18), vinyl ethers from mono-functional aliphatic saturated alcohols (C i-Cis), propylene, butadiene, maleic acid, fumaric acid, itaconic acid, acrylic acid, methacrylic acid (total < 8 %) and N-cyclohexylmaleinimide (< 7 %). 

The free radical copolymerization of methyl methacrylate or acrylonitrile in the presence of zinc chloride with allylic compounds such as allyl alcohol, allyl acetate, and allyl chloride or butene isomers such as isobutylene, 1-butene, and 2-butene is characterized by the incorporation of greater amounts of comonomer than is noted in the absence of zinc chloride (35). Analogous to the radical homopolymerization of allylic monomers in the presence of zince chloride, the increase in the electron-accepting capability of the methyl methacrylate or acrylonitrile as a result of complexation results in the formation of a charge transfer complex which undergoes homopolymerization and/or copolymerization with a polar monomer-complexed polar monomer complex. 

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