Polymerization vinylic

Vinyl alcohol does not exist as a monomer, but Herrmann and Haehnel (1) were able to obtain the desired product poly(vinyl alcohol) [9002-89-5] (PVA), by polymerizing vinyl acetate and then hydrolyzing the resultant poly(vinyl acetate). This process is employed for the commercial production of PVA even now. The principal concern of the discoverers was development of a suture for surgical operations the fiber then obtained was not suited for clothing use (2). 

Solution Polymerization. Solution polymerization of vinyl acetate is carried out mainly as an intermediate step to the manufacture of poly(vinyl alcohol). A small amount of solution-polymerized vinyl acetate is prepared for the merchant market. When solution polymerization is carried out, the solvent acts as a chain-transfer agent, and depending on its transfer constant, has an effect on the molecular weight of the product. The rate of polymerization is also affected by the solvent but not in the same way as the degree of polymerization. The reactivity of the solvent-derived radical plays an important part. Chain-transfer constants for solvents in vinyl acetate polymerizations have been tabulated (13). Continuous solution polymers of poly(vinyl acetate) in tubular reactors have been prepared at high yield and throughput (73,74). 

One of the first methods of polymerizing vinyl monomers was to expose the monomer to sunlight. In 1845, Blyth and Hoffman [7] obtained by this means a clear glassy polymeric product from styrene. Berthelot and Gaudechon [8] were the first to polymerize ethylene to a solid form and they used ultraviolet (UV) light for this purpose. The first demonstration of the chain reaction nature of photoinitiation of vinyl polymerization was done by Ostromislenski in 1912 [9]. He showed that the amount of poly(vinyl bromide) produced was considerably in excess of that produced for an ordinary chemical reaction. 

Polymerization of styrene or methyl methacrylate by macroazoinimers having two vinyl groups (MIM-2v) resulted in crosslinked block copolymers, while macroazoinimers with one vinyl end (MIM-1 v) group to polymerize vinyl monomers yielded branched block copolymers. 

The most important industrial application of alkanesulfonates is the generation of the appropriate emulsions for polymerizing vinyl monomers, e.g., vinyl-chloride or styrene. Other uses are as textile and leather auxiliaries, formulating aids for plant protection agents, and fire-extinguishing foams. 

In this study the relationship between the structure of organometallic compounds and their ability to polymerize vinyl monomers and olefins will be examined. The objective is to identify methods of synthesis for polymerization catalysts that are more selective and more active than the systems currently available. 

Polymeric iniferters synthesized from diisocyanates and 21f, as shown in Eq. (27), were used to polymerize vinyl monomers, e.g., St, MMA, AN, and VBCl [ 131-137]. The multiblock copolymers of polyurethane and vinyl polymers were also characterized. 

Most examples of polymerization used to create nanoparticles occur by a free radical mechanism involving distinct initiation, propagation, and termination processes [39]. Polymerization occurs within a continuous liquid medium, which also comprises the monomer, initiator, and a surfactant. Four different polymerization techniques are described to polymerize vinyl type monomers, namely ... 

The next products developed were the thermoplastics made by vinyl polymerization. Vinyl chloride, and vinyl acetate copolymers known as Vinylite, was one of the first produced by Carbide and Carbon. It had been worked on in Europe and had also been worked on by Ostromysslenski, a chemist with the U. S. Rubber Company. The Carbide chemists realized at an early date that to get a uniform composition it was necessary to adjust the feed ratios of the two monomers to get a proper combination in the reactor to give a constant composition to the product. The next major development of a vinyl product was in the development of Lucite or Plexiglas polymers, which are clear, strong plastics. 

Ziegler-Natta catalyst. Gi ulio Natta developed a catalyst based on his work with Karl Ziegler for polymerizing vinyl monomers to give stereoregular, tailored, three-dimensional chains. The catalyst is based on aluminum alkyls and TiCU or other transition metal halides. 

Vinyl coatings are used primarily on metal surfaces. They provide excellent protection by their strong cohesive forces, although their adhesion to the metal is not good. Used with a phosphoric acid-containing primer to etch the metal surface, this adhesion is markedly improved. The primer also contains poly(vinyl butyral) and is approximately 0.2-0.3 mil thick (1 mil = 1/1000th inch). Poly(vinyl butyral) is made from polymerized vinyl acetate by hydrolysis and reaction with butyraldehyde. 

In fact, the first description of a polymeric vinyl ester dates back to 1912 when Klatte [1] managed to polymerise vinyl chloroacetate to obtain a solid resin. However, the potential of these materials was not seen at that time [2]. Additionally the polymerisation reaction faced severe practical problems leading to products... 

In the absence of H2 and other transfer agents, polymer molecular weight is limited by various P-hydride transfers—from normal (1,2-) and reverse (2,1-) propagating centers, before and after rearrangement [Lehmus et al., 2000 Resconi et al., 2000 Rossi et al., 1995, 1996 Zhou et al., 2001] (Sec. 8-4i-2). Vinylidene, vinylene, and trisubstituted double-bond end groups are formed in 1-alkene polymerizations, vinyl and vinylene in ethylene polymerization. [Vinyl groups are also produced in some 1-alkene polymerizations, not by P-hydride transfer, but by P-alkyl transfer (Sec. 8-4i-2).]... 

Polymerized vinyl chloride as a homopolymer is hard and brittle, making it difficult to work and impractical as a commercial material. In 1926, Waldo Lonsbury Semon (1898—1999) was working for B. F. Goodrich searching for a synthetic rubber that could adhere to metal objects. Semon examined vinyl chloride and found that when polyvinyl chloride powder was mixed in certain solvents, he obtained a stiff gel that could be molded into a plastic material. The material s hardness and pliability depended on the mix of solvent and polyvinyl chloride. Semon... 

The group of firms or units within firms that employ a particular technology can be termed a productive segment. For example, all the firms that polymerize vinyl chloride would constitute a productive segment. 

It is reported that methyl acrylate, allyl acetate, vinyl acetate and dimethyl maleate give only low yields of oligomers with butyllithium under all experimental conditions (31). Furukawa and coworkers (32) confirm that vinyl acetate will not polymerize and that n-butyl-vinyl-ether will not either. High polymers can be formed from isopropyl acrylate (39) in toluene at —70° and from t-butyl acrylate (65). The reported failure of methyl acrylate and butyl acrylate to yield high polymers could reflect a genuine difference in behaviour connected with the side group or. could simply result from failure to choose the most favourable conditions for polymerization. Vinyl acetate can be polymerized by lithium metal (49) but co-polymerization experiments suggest that the polymer is formed by a radical mechanism. 

A special technique known under the term in situ polymerization and originating from the anchored catalyst technique, probably first applied by Lipson and Spearman (31, 32) in polymerizing vinyl-monomers onto wool, has been adopted to persulphate grafting by Imperial... 

The first application of the ferrous ion-hydrogen peroxide initiation for polymerizing vinyl monomers on and into cellulose fibers has been reported by Landeias and Whewell (41) in three successive papers. They are apparently the first who applied the "anchored catalyst technique, which other people have termed "in situ polymerization to cellulose grafting. The authors internally deposited methyl methacrylate, acrylonitrile, styrene, methyl vinyl ketone and methacrylamide in amounts between 10 and 80%. No attempt had been made to determine if actual grafting had occurred. In 1961 Richards (42) studied this question in great detail. Products obtained by polymerization of acrylonitrile and of styrene in viscose rayon were acetylated. Fractionation of... 

Grafting by chain transfer has permitted to combine sequences of two monomers which would not copolymerize directly with each other. Thus Smets and coworkers, by polymerizing vinyl acetate in the presence of polyethyl a-chloroacrylate, obtained, besides some insoluble products, very appreciable amounts of graft copolymers, in which the vinyl acetate content ranged from 40 to 86% (204). 

The mechanical degradation and production of macroradicals can also be performed by mastication of polymers brought into a rubbery state by admixture with monomer several monomer-polymer systems were examined (10, 11). This technique was for instance studied for the cold mastication of natural rubber or butadiene copolymers in the presence of a vinyl monomer (13, 31, 52). The polymerization of methyl methacrylate or styrene during the mastication of natural rubber has yielded copolymers which remain soluble up to complete polymerization vinyl acetate, which could not produce graft copolymers by the chain transfer technique, failed also in this mastication procedure. Block and graft copolymers were also prepared by cross-addition of the macroradicals generated by the cold milling and mastication of mixtures of various elastomers and polymers, such as natural rubber/polymethyl methacrylate (74), natural rubber/butadiene-styrene rubbers (76) and even phenol-formaldehyde resin/nitrile rubber (125). 

Monomer diffusion in the rubbery phase of PVC-rich reaction products is difficult, and this was demonstrated by polymerizing vinyl chloride (200 grams) at 70°C in the presence of a crude polymerizate (360 grams) containing 9% total rubber suspended in an aqueous solution of poly-(vinyl alcohol) (1.2% with respect to the polymer + monomer weight), so as to obtain a ratio of water/crude + monomer = 2.4 and by using benzoyl peroxide (0.38% with respect to the reacting monomer). 

The ester functions of a polymer such as poly(vinyl acetate) are just like ester functions of simple molecules they can be cleaved by hydrolysis under either acidic or basic conditions. To prepare poly(vinyl alcohol), therefore, polymerize vinyl acetate to poly(vinyl acetate), and then cleave the ester groups by hydrolysis. 

Radical I". The purpose of polymerizing vinyl chloride under a variety of conditions was to prepare polymers with a wide range of branching, and molecular weight. The ESR spectra of all PVC glasses, however, exhibited the same six line absorption at LNT. This seems to indicate that the variation of the above properties in the present case did not affect the degradation process of PVC appreciably. 

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