Intramolecular chain transfer

Intramolecular Chain Transfer. Intramolecular hydrogen transfer (20) leads to many of the observed products. In the equations below,... 

However, the low-temperature oxidation of solid polypropylene (70-110°C) proceeds with alternating intramolecular and intermolecular chain transfer. Intramolecular kinetic of extension chains is limited to small parts of the macromolecule with a favorable set of conformations. As a result, blocks of hydroperoxide can be short. In the solid polypropylene has found about 60% of paired units and about 20% of triads, the share of units with a higher number of hydroperoxide groups is small. It should be noted that in other carbon-chain polymers increases the probability of intramolecular reaction at the high rate of conformational motions. For example, in the polymers with a saturated C-C bond (such as... 

Note I See also intermolecular chain transfer, intramolecular chain transfer, and backbiting. 

It has been shown that intramolecular chain transfer to polymer occurs during the polymerisation of vinyl acetate, lea ding to short-chain branching (81,235—238). The number of short-chain branches has been estimated by nmr to be in the range of 0.12—1.7 mol % (81). The number of short-chain branches increases significantly at low monomer concentration. 

Intramolecular chain transfer due to the detachment of a hydrogen atom in the macroradical proper and movement of its valence to the end of the chain followed by the breaking of C—C bond. 

Intermolecular chain transfer reactions may occur between two propagating polymer chains and result in the termination of one of the chains. Alternatively, these reactions take place by an intramolecular reaction by the coiling of a long chain. Intramolecular chain transfer normally results in short branches ... 

In the case of allyl peroxides (12 X= CH2, A=CH2, BO),1 1 1 intramolecular homolytic substitution on the 0-0 bond gives an epoxy end group as shown in Scheme 6.18 (1,3-Sn/ mechanism). The peroxides 52-59 are thermally stable under the conditions used to determine their chain transfer activity (Table 6.10). The transfer constants are more than two orders of magnitude higher than those for dialkyi peroxides such as di-f-butyl peroxide (Q=0.00023-0.0013) or di-isopropyl peroxide (C =0.0003) which are believed to give chain transfer by direct attack on the 0-0 bond.49 This is circumstantial evidence in favor of the addition-fragmentation mechanism. 

Peroxyacetals 58106 and peresters such as 61107 are also effective transfer agents, however, at typical polymerization temperatures ( 60 CC) they are thermally unstable and also act as initiators. Compounds such as 62 which may give addition and 1,5-intramolecular substitution with fragmentation have also been examined for their potential as chain transfer agents (l,5-SHi mechanism).108... 

Typical levels of MAH in grafted PP of 0.5-2 wt % correspond to only one or two units per chain. If the MAII units arc grouped it follows that many chains may contain no MAH. It has also been suggested that for PP all MAH may appear at the chain ends. This is rationalized in terms of the reaction of mid chain radicals with MAH always being followed by intramolecular chain transfer and chain... 

The sequence of reactions (58) and (59) corresponds to the mechanism proposed for chain transfer with benzene (see p. 142, footnote). The experimental result of Price and Read does not, however, rule out the possibility that the inhibitor radical (e.g., IV, or a possible successor formed by intramolecular rearrangement) may occasionally add monomer, thus giving rise to limited copolymerization of the retarder. 

The predominating type of nonlinearity in polyethylene appears to consist of short chain branches three or four chain atoms in length formed by intramolecular chain transfer as follows ... 

These steps are illustrated in Fig. 2.3 and were described in Section 2.3. When chain transfer involves intermolecular or intramolecular reactions, long and short chain branches are created. 

Hossain, M. A., Mihara, H. and Ueno, A. (2003). Novel peptides bearing pyrene and coumarin units with or without beta-cyclodextrin in their side chains exhibit intramolecular fluorescence resonance energy transfer. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 125, 11178-11179. 

As pointed out in the foregoing, there are two specific peculiarities qualitatively distinguishing these systems from the classical ones. These peculiarities are intramolecular chemical inhomogeneity of polymer chains and the dependence of the composition of macromolecules X on their length l. Experimental data for several nonclassical systems indicate that at a fixed monomer mixture composition x° and temperature such dependence of X on l is of universal character for any concentration of initiator and chain transfer agent [63,72,76]. This function X(l), within the context of the theory proposed here, is obtainable from the solution of kinetic equations (Eq. 62), supplemented by thermodynamic equations (Eq. 63). For heavily swollen globules, when vector-function F(X) can be presented in explicit analytical form... 

During PP oxidation, hydroxyl groups are formed by the intramolecular isomerization of alkyl radicals. Since PP oxidizes through an intense intramolecular chain transfer, many of the alkyl radicals containing hydroperoxy groups in the 0-position to an available bond can undergo this reaction. An isomerization reaction has also been demonstrated for the liquid-phase oxidation of 2,4-dimethylpentane [89], Oxidation products contain, in addition to hydroperoxides, oxide or diol. 

Table 2. Intramolecular crosslinking of PVS [217], Reaction conditions PVS concentration = 0.975 mass % AIBN concentration = 1.65X10 3 M temperature = 70 °C n-butylmercaptan (chain transfer agent) concentration = 20 mL/L reaction time = 25 min. The Mw and Mn were measured by light scattering and membrane osmometry respectively.

Intramolecular chain transfer, 20 220 Intramolecular cycloacylations, 72 177 Intramolecular self assembly, 20 482 Intramolecular stretching modes, 74 236 Intraoperative auto transfusion, 3 719 Intraparticle mass transfer, 75 729-730 Intrapellet Damkohler number, 25 294,... 

In some processes, a diluent, like benzene or chlorobenzene are used as the solvent. At high pressure and temperature, both the polyethylene and the monomers dissolve in these solvents so that the reaction occur in a solution phase. In a typical process, 10-30 per cent of the monomer is converted to polymer per cycle. Rest of monomer is recycled. Extensive chain transfer reactions take place during polymerisation to yield a branched polyethylene. Apart from long branches it is also having a large number of short branches of unto 5 carbon atoms formed by intramolecular chain transfer reactions. A typical molecule of Low density polyethylene is having a short branch for about every 50 carbon atoms and one or two long branches per molecule. 

Intramolecular hydrogen abstraction by primary alkyl radicals from the Si-H moiety has been reported as a key step in several unimolecular chain transfer reactions.59,60 In particular, the 1,5-hydrogen transfer of radicals 14-17 [Eq. (5)], generated from the corresponding iodides, was studied in... 

Formation of Cyclic Oligomers. Chain transfer reactions occur by intermolecular attack of oxygen from another polyether chain on the a-methylene carbons of the oxonium ion. In an intramolecular attack a distant oxygen of the growing polymer chain itself attacks the a-methylene position of its oxonium center. 

The chain transfer by intramolecular methanolysis is illustrated in Scheme 7.18. 

Transfer of the free radical to another molecule serves as one of the termination steps for general polymer growth. Thus, transfer of a hydrogen atom at one end of the chain to a free radical end of another chain is a chain transfer process we dealt with in Section 6.2 under termination via disproportionation. When abstraction occurs intramolecularly or intermolecularly by a hydrogen atom some distance away from the chain end, branching results. Each chain transfer process causes the termination of one macroradical and produces another macroradical. The new radical sites serve as branch points for chain extension or branching. As noted above, such chain transfer can occur within the same chain as shown below. 

Several chain transfer to polymer reactions are possible in cationic polymerization. Transfer of the cationic propagating center can occur either by electrophilic aromatic substituation or hydride transfer. Intramolecular electrophilic aromatic substituation (or backbiting) occurs in the polymerization of styrene as well as other aromatic monomers with the formation of... 

Transfer and termination occur by the modes described previously for cyclic ether polymerizations. Chain transfer to polymer (both inter- and intramolecular) is facilitated in cyclic acetal polymerizations compared to cyclic ethers because acetal oxygens in the polymer chain are more basic than the corresponding ether oxygens [Penczek and Kubisa, 1989a,b]. Working at high monomer concentrations, especially bulk polymerizations, is used to depress cyclic oligomer formation. 

The Cj - and 54-symmetric tetraesters of tricyclo[3.3.0.0 ]octane (430 and 431) have been prepared by oxidation of diene 429 To access the parent hydrocarbon (435), acid chloride 432 was transformed to the derived ketene which undergoes intramolecular [2+2] cycloaddition The resulting cyclobutanone (433) serves as precursor to perester 434 whose thermal decomposition proceeds with chain transfer in competition with cleavage The unique arrangement of the carbon atoms in 435 is such that the smallest rings are all five-membered. The highly symmetric structure may be viewed as a constrained cisoid bicyclo[3.3.0]octane (as well as the symbol of NATO). 

The ruthenium catalyst can be used to catalyze the synthesis of a cyclic poly(octenamer). The catalyst is added to ris-cyclooctene in CH2CI2 solution at 45° C. The intermediate macrocyclic complex undergoes an intramolecular chain transfer to yield the cyclic polymer and regenerate the catalyst. 

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