Collect. Czech. Chem. Commun.
1982, 47, 785-792
https://doi.org/10.1135/cccc19820785
The effect of substitution on the reactivity of the monomer in the copolymerization of styrene with 2,3-unsatured aldehydes and ketones
Otakar Seyčeka, Bohumil Bednářb, Milan Houskac and Jaroslav Kálalc
a Chemopetrol, Synthetic Rubber Research Institute 278 52 Kralupy nad Vltavou
b Institute of Chemical Technology, Department of Polymers, 166 28 Prague 6
c Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 162 06 Prague 6
Abstract
The monomer reactivity ratios of the copolymerization of styrene with propenal, 2-methylpropenal, 2-ethylpropenal, methylvinyl ketone and methylisopropenyl ketone were determined and their reliability was checked. For copolymerization conducted to low conversions, a simple procedure was proposed in order to rule out the effect of the conversion heterogeneity of copolymers on the determination of r1, r2 by calculation using a differential copolymerization equation. When comparing aldehydes and ketones with reference monomers having a similar skeleton of the molecule, the effect of substitution on the monomer reactivity in the copolymerization was examined, and a new correlation, e~σn, was suggested, interpreting the influence of polar effects of substituents on the monomer reactivity. It was proved that the copolymerization kinetics of 2-ethylpropenal is affected by the steric hindrance from the part of the too bulky substituent.
