Styrene monomer propylene oxide effects

Although the reactivity increase caused by crown ethers and cryptands in anionic polymerizations has already found a wide range of application, more details have been reported and a number of questions concerning the type and the behavior of the different species present, both in the initiation and in the propagation steps, have been clarified by, for example, kinetic studies [235], Special polymerization reactions that were effected in the presence of crown compounds are those starting with butadiene, propene, styrene, 2-vinyl pyridine, ethylene oxide, propylene sulfide, isobutylene sulfide, methyl methacrylate, p-propyllactone, or e-caprolactone as monomers and alkali metals as initiators [238-246],... 

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