Polypyrocatechin borate

In the process of inhibition polypyrocatechin borate interacts with polyethylene macroradicals to form the B—O—C bonds. This is confirmed by the fact that the absorption spectrum of polyethylene inhibited with polypyrocatechin borate revealed the bands in the region of 1350 cm" characteristic for the B—O—C bond. There is no such a band in the spectrum of pure polypyrocatechin borate after heating under the same conditions. Chemical analysis of boron in polyethylene provides support for the IR-spectroscopy data concerning the presence of chemically bonded boron in polyethylene after destruction. 

Inhibition of polyethylene thermal destruction by polypyrocatechin borate could be represented as follows. The initial molecular-chain scission of branched... 

Polypyrocatechin borate has a higher inhibitive efficiency relative to the reactions of the radical R2 than to that of the radical Ri, since the latter exerts a more severe decrease in the yield of propane and propylene than in the yield of ethane and ethylene, and favors an insignificant growth of polyethylene nonsaturation in the pro-... 

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