Reacting polymer mixture

Temperature control policies have also been suggested to diminish the composition spread in batch reactors (92, 94). However, the low sensitivity of the reactivity ratios to temperature (Figure 7), the poor heat transfer characteristics of reacting polymer mixtures (slow response times) and the considerable excursions in temperature (and, therefore, molecular weights) required to maintain adequate uniformity in composition make the application of these temperature control policies unrealistic. 

HAR 97] Harada a., Tran-Cong Q., Modulated Phases Observed in Reacting Polymer Mixtures with Competing Interactions , Macromolecules, vol. 30, pp. 1643-1650, 1997. 

The majority of chemical reactions involved in reactive blending results from two functional polymers provided that the functional groups are able to react at the extrusion conditions including melt temperature, shear stress, and bulk state of the reacting polymer mixture. 

In a similar way, polyester block copolymers were obtained by reacting acid chloride-terminated polyesters with hydroxy-terminated polyethers,401 or by reacting polyester-containing polymer mixtures with coupling agents such as diisocyanates.402... 

None of the polypropylenes rotate plane-polarized light. If an optically inactive reagent and an achiral compound react, the product must be optically inactive. For every chirality center generated, an enantiomeric chirality center is also generated, and the resulting polymer mixture is inactive. 

This probability is equal for the whole mole fraction of X-mers in the polymer mixture and can, therefore, also be expressed as NJN, i.e., as the ratio of X-mers to the number of reacting units N at the specific reaction time t. 

Most polymers are not miscible. Introducing chemical reactions to an initially miscible polymer mixture often leads to phase separation (50). Autocatalytic behavior driven by tchemical reactions and concentration fluctuations in miscible polymer mixtures was recently found in photo-cross-linked polymer mixtures 31). Concentration fluctuations increase as the reaction proceeds, leading to the condensation of photoreactive groups labeled on one of the polymer components. This condensation leads to an increase in the reaction yield that, in turn, accelerates the concentration fluctuations.. A positive feedback can thus be built in the reacting mixture under appropriate conditions. 

Structure and Nomenclature The principal method of polymerizing monomers by the chain kinetic scheme involves the opening of double bonds to form a linear molecule. In a reacting mixture, monomer, fully reacted polymer, and only a small amount of rapidly reacting species are present. Once the polymer terminates, it is dead and cannot react further by the synthesis scheme outlined previously. 

For nonreacting polymer mixtures, several efforts have been made to elucidate the effects of viscoelasticity on phase separation of polymer mixtures from a theoretical viewpoint [40, 41]. These particular effects on phase separation were shown to be important as a long-range interaction in the phase separation kinetics of polymer mixtures [42]. On the other hand, for reacting polymer systems, very recently, Ohta and coworkers took into account the elastic effects of the polymer on the phase separation kinetics of a mixture composed of liquid crystals dissolved in monomer undergoing polymerization [43]. 

Polymers that set by chemical reaction may react not only within the components of pre-polymer mixtures, but also with the substrate. This occurs principally with pre-polymers that are sensitive to water, such as isocyanates in polyurethanes and silanes. The chemical links can be deliberately created by using a reactive primer, e.g. a silane coupling agent. Many water-soluble polymers, e.g. poly(vinyl alcohol) and cellulose derivatives, may be expected to adhere more strongly and irreversibly because of the presence of reactive groups on degraded objects. 

A similar initiation mechanism was demonstrated for the interaction of vinyl ethers with vinylidene cyanide, but in this case both an anionic and cationic homopolymerization took place in the same polymerization flask, an unusual event which was termed "cohabitory polymerization . ° ° Later, Dan Chting 16,119 able to fish some 2+2 cycloaddition products out of the polymer mixture obtained when the vinyl ethers reacted with vinylidene cyanide, thus lending support to a reaction mechanism in which the radical cation-radical anion pair could collapse to form the cyclobutane derivative or separate to initiate polymerization. The fact that a 1 1 alternating copolymer was obtained in the presence of a radical initiator supported the existence of a charge transfer complex. 

Liquid polysulfides can also be prepared directly with thiol end groups by reacting a mixture of aliphatic di- and polyhalides with a mixture of sodium disulfide and sodium hydrogen sulfide [77]. Reaction polymeric disulfides with polymercaptans also leads to the formation of liquid polysulfides [37]. LP polymers with M in the range of 600 to 8000 are generally f eferred. The uncured LP polymers are soluble in toluene, benzene and chlorinated hydrocarbons such as ethylene chloride [17, 78]. LP polym like LP-31, LP-2, LP-32, LP-12, LP-3, LP-33, LP-5, LP-8, based on range of viscosities, molecular weights and functionalities, are available [17]. 

In 1997, Taki et al. prepared two in-chain polymers by reacting a mixture of Ca) bisphenol (5) with an equimolar amount of dibasic acid dichloride (sebacoyl dichloride or a 1 1 mixture of isophthaloyl chloride/terephthaloyl chloride) at room temperature to afford linear main chain-polyesters 7a, b, which are soluble in DMF (Scheme 2.3) [12]. 

By reacting a mixture of 60 g of 70 30 C2H4-C3HS copolymer (molecular weight 2 X 10 as a continuous phase), 40 g of Cio-is alkyl methacrylates, 2 g of bis(ferf-butyl peroxy)-butane, and 1 g of ferf-butyl peroxy ethyl hex-anoate at 145°C for 20 min, a polymer dispersion, which was tack free at -50°C, was obtained by Fengler et al. [18] at Rohm GmbH and showed 11.4 and 78.1 centistokes (mmVs) solution viscosities, respectively, at 40 and 100°C when used at 1.7 wt% in mineral oil. 

Furfural reacts with ketones to form strong, crosslinked resins of technical interest in the former Soviet Union the U.S. Air Force has also shown some interest (42,43). The so-called furfurylidene acetone monomer, a mixture of 2-furfurylidene methyl ketone [623-15-4] (1 )> bis-(2-furfurylidene) ketone [886-77-1] (14), mesityl oxide, and other oligomers, is obtained by condensation of furfural and acetone under basic conditions (44,45). Treatment of the "monomer" with an acidic catalyst leads initially to polymer of low molecular weight and ultimately to cross-linked, black, insoluble, heat-resistant resin (46). 

Reactions with Ammonia and Amines. Acetaldehyde readily adds ammonia to form acetaldehyde—ammonia. Diethyl amine [109-87-7] is obtained when acetaldehyde is added to a saturated aqueous or alcohoHc solution of ammonia and the mixture is heated to 50—75°C in the presence of a nickel catalyst and hydrogen at 1.2 MPa (12 atm). Pyridine [110-86-1] and pyridine derivatives are made from paraldehyde and aqueous ammonia in the presence of a catalyst at elevated temperatures (62) acetaldehyde may also be used but the yields of pyridine are generally lower than when paraldehyde is the starting material. The vapor-phase reaction of formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, and ammonia at 360°C over oxide catalyst was studied a 49% yield of pyridine and picolines was obtained using an activated siHca—alumina catalyst (63). Brown polymers result when acetaldehyde reacts with ammonia or amines at a pH of 6—7 and temperature of 3—25°C (64). Primary amines and acetaldehyde condense to give Schiff bases CH2CH=NR. The Schiff base reverts to the starting materials in the presence of acids. 

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