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The program will be demonstrated with poly(vinyl alcohol) for tacticity analysis and with copolymer vinylidene chloride isobutylene for monomer sequence analysis. Peak assignments in C-13 spectra were obtained independently by two-dimensional NMR techniques. In some cases, assignments have been extended to longer sequences and confirmed via simulation of the experimental data. Experimental and "best-fit" simulated spectra will be compared. 

In figure 1 we present the experimental and calculated mK values of the copolymer poly(styrene-co-p-bromostyrene). From this study (3) we were able to show unequivocally that the tacticity of this polystyrene sample is pr — 0.55, where pr is the probability of racemic dyad replication. 

Poly(styrene)-poly(acrylate) colloidal suspensions, 7 275 Polystyrene/polyfmethyl methacrylate) commercial block copolymers, 7 648t Polystyrenes. See also Polystyrene (PS) commercial, 23 364 general-purpose, 23 364 specialty, 23 364-366 stabilized, 23 366 tactic, 23 365... 

The disadvantages of all biochemical routes is the lack of variable tacticity in the polymer and, even more important, the need for time-consuming purification. PHB materials of feasible properties are only achieved with high production costs. In the 1990s, ICl sold a copolymer of 3-HB and 3-HV (BIOPOL) for about 10-20 /kg whereas the price of PP was less than 2 /kg. Therefore, a fermentative synthesis is feasible for smaller applications but not cannot compete with packaging materials such as poly(olefin)s [43 5] (Fig. 10). 

Polymerization. Poly (methyl methacrylate) was obtained commercially. The polymers of other methacrylates and their copolymers were prepared in toluene with 2,2 -azobisisobutyronitrile (AIBN) at 60 °C. All the polymers prepared free radically were syndiotactic or atactic. Isotactic poly(a,a-dimethylbenzyl methacrylate) was obtained using C6H5MgBr as the initiator in toluene at 0°C. Poly(methacrylic acid) was prepared in water using potassium persulfate at as the initiator 60 °C. The molecular weights, glass transition temperatures and tacticities of the polymethacrylates are summarized in Table I. 

Experimental values are presented of the molar Kerr constants /x and dipole moments squared, lx, for the copolymers poly(styrene-co-p-bromostyrene), where x is the degree of polymerization. Some results are also presented for poly(styrene-co-p-chlorostyrene) and related polymers. The RIS model of Yoon etal. (Yoon, D. Y. Sundararajan, P. R. Flory, P. J. Macromolecules 1975, 8, 776) is used to calculate mK/x and /x values as a function of tacticity and composition. The statistical weight matrices are identical with those used by Saiz etal. (Saiz, E. Mark, J. E. Flory, P. J. Macromolecules 1977, 10, 967), with the following parameters h = 0.8 exp 397/RT), co = o = 1.3 exp - 1987/RT) and m,= 1.B exp -(2186/RT), where T = 298 K is the temperature. 

C NMR spectroscopy of the reaction mixture is useful not only to determine the presence of coupling products, but also to assign the tacticity of the copolymer product. The solution IR spectrum of poly(cyclohexene carbonate) shows three stretching bands corresponding to vc,0 of the copolymer at 1750 cnr1, and that of... 

For free-radical polymerization, classical results have been obtained concerning the tacticity of hydroxytelechelic poly(methyl methacrylate)109) and copolymers, 46) initiated by H202/UV. Most of the units are in a syndiotactic (64 %) or heterotactic (30 %) configuration. For poly(vinyl acetate) obtained in the presence of H202 at 120 °C 98), the polymer contains less syndiotactic (22%) and somewhat more heterotactic (38%) units with 80% of head-to-tail linkage mode. For the copolymerization of alkyl methacrylate by the H202/UV system113) quite different results, explained by the nature of the medium, especially by the solubility effect (see Table 1.1), have been obtained. 

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. The successful study of polymers in solution by high resolution NMR spectroscopy started with the pioneering work on the sequence structure of poly methyl methacrylate in 1960. Since then, an ever-increasing number of investigations have been carried out ranging from the elucidation of the statistics of homopolymer and copolymer structure to the study of conformation, relaxation and adsorption properties of polymers. The aspects of sequence length determination and tacticity have received considerable attention (Klesper 84, for example, reports more than 500 entries). Therefore, a detailed review will not be attempted. (For a detailed description of the NMR Theory and statistics of polymer structure, see Bovey 59, Randall 23, and Klesper 84). 

The polymer composed of 2-cyclohexenyl-l,4 units can exhibit high Tg (176 °C) when the tacticity is controlled well [62]. Recently, [( -allyl)NiBr]2, in conjunction with MAO, was found to initiate stereo- and regiospecific polymerization of 1,3-cyclohexadiene [63]. Although the polymer has too poor solubility in organic solvents to be analyzed by NMR spectroscopy, the copolymers of 1,3-cyclohexadiene with 1,3-butadiene and norbornene prepared by the Ni catalyst show NMR spectra that indicate the presence of the 2-cyclohexene- 1,4-diyl unit formed via 1,4-polymerization of 1,3-cyclohexadiene (Eq. 11). X-ray diffraction analysis of the crystalline poly( 1,3-cyclohexadiene) as well as studies by molecular dynamics confirmed the cis-syndiotactic structure of the polymer [64]. 

We have been concerned with the precision and accuracy of NMR data of polymers since we first started NMR studies on polymers.1-4 Using continuous-wave (CW) spectrometers, the effects of measurement conditions including temperature, sample concentration and radiofrequency (rf) field strength, were examined using several polymer and copolymer samples. Since our research group have been deeply involved in stereospecific polymerization of methacrylates, one of the main concerns about NMR measurement was the precision of tacticity determination by NMR. The errors in determining the tacticity of poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) and those in the results of polymerization of methyl methacrylate (MMA) by radical and anionic initiators were examined and found to be satisfactorily small.4 Although there... 

If there are more than two components in a mixture (as in a blend of a homopolymer with a copolymer), binary interaction parameters can be combined into a composite % parameter to describe the overall behavior of the system. For example, Choi and Jo [11] showed how the effects of copolymer sequence distribution in blends of polyethylene oxide) with poly(styrene-co-acrylic acid) can be described by an atomistic simulation approach to estimate the binary intermolecular interaction energies which are combined into a total interaction parameter for the blend. Their paper [11] also provides a list of the many preceding publications attempting to address the effects of copolymer composition, tacticity, and copolymer sequence distribution on polymer blend miscibility. In addition to the advances in computational hardware and software which have made atomistic simulations much faster and hence more accessible, work in recent years has significantly improved the accuracy of the force fields [12] used in such simulations. 

Diene polymerization may involve either or both of the double bonds. Geometric and structural isomers of butadiene, for example, are indicated by using appropriate prefixes — cis or irons, 1,2 or 1,4 — before poly, as in cw-l,2-poly(l,3-butadiene). Tacticity of the polymer may be indicated by using the prefix i (isotactic), s (syndiotactic), or a (atactic) before poly, such as 5-polystyrene. Copolymers are identified by separating the monomers involved within parentheses by either alt (alternating), b (block), g (graft), or co (random), as in poly(styrene-g-butadiene). 

The molar optical rotation of configurational copolymers of (S) and (R) isomers of the same monomer is generally, in the case of poly(a-olefins), a hyperbolic and not a linear function of the optical purity of the monomers. Thus, the molar optical rotation of the copolymers is always greater than that obtained by additivity rules. Whether this is caused by tactic blocks in the polymers or by mixtures of (S) and (R) unipolymers has not been established yet. 

Over the past several decades, polylactide - i.e. poly(lactic acid) (PLA) - and its copolymers have attracted significant attention in environmental, biomedical, and pharmaceutical applications as well as alternatives to petro-based polymers [1-18], Plant-derived carbohydrates such as glucose, which is derived from corn, are most frequently used as raw materials of PLA. Among their applications as alternatives to petro-based polymers, packaging applications are the primary ones. Poly(lactic acid)s can be synthesized either by direct polycondensation of lactic acid (lUPAC name 2-hydroxypropanoic acid) or by ring-opening polymerization (ROP) of lactide (LA) (lUPAC name 3,6-dimethyl-l,4-dioxane-2,5-dione). Lactic acid is optically active and has two enantiomeric forms, that is, L- and D- (S- and R-). Lactide is a cyclic dimer of lactic acid that has three possible stereoisomers (i) L-lactide (LLA), which is composed of two L-lactic acids, (ii) D-lactide (DLA), which is composed of two D-lactic acids, and (iii) meso-lactide (MLA), which is composed of an L-lactic acid and a D-lactic acid. Due to the two enantiomeric forms of lactic acids, their homopolymers are stereoisomeric and their crystallizability, physical properties, and processability depend on their tacticity, optical purity, and molecular weight the latter two are dominant factors. 

Figure 7.71 illustrates the change of the glass transition for poly(styrene-co-acrylonitrile) as a function of the run number, defined in Fig. 7.70. The branches of the Barton equation (mA > mg, and mA < mB) are symmetric to the line which extends to the alternating copolymer. This treatment of T can also be applied to triads, and one can use the other equations of Fig. 7.69 as base, but with an increase in complexity. Stereo-specific copolymers consisting of meso and racemic dyads can be treated if the samples of different tacticity have different glass transitions [32].

SYNTHESIS OF TACTIC POLY(ALKYL METHACRYLATE) HOMO AND COPOLYMERS... 

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