Thermodynamics of equilibrium polymerization

The effect of solvents on the equilibrium constants in anionic polymerization in solution has been considered in thermodynamic terms [407]. 

Sawada [407] expressed the change in free energy for converting one mole of liquid monomer in an anionic polymerization to one base-mole of an amorphous polymer, AFic, as follows  

Rory [409] described AF and AFp in a three component system of polymer, monomer, and solvent as follow  

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Some readers will be interested in the fact that Huang and Wang [75] in 1972 presented a newer theoretical treatment of the reaction kinetics of reversible polymerization in which this classic derivation of Dainton and Ivin is a special case. The thermodynamics of equilibrium polymerizations have recently been reviewed by Sawada [76]. 

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