Radical Polymerization of Macro-Monomers

The number of studies about syntheses and applications of macro-monomers has been increasing since macro-monomers are very useful in the preparation of various kinds of functional graft copolymers having well-defined structures. One can clarify the mechanism of polymerization of macro-monomers in comparison with small monomers by the ESR method, which is also a good example of the application to 

Here [M] is the concentration of the macro-monomer. Tsukahara et al. [7] have observed ESR spectra of propagating radicals during the polymerization of a styrene macro-monomer having a metacyloyl end group. 

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