A numerical procedure is developed which allows taking into account the chain length dependence of the termination and propagation constants for calculating molecular weight distributions (MWDs) formed under free-radical polymerization initiated by an arbitrary sequence of laser pulses. The law whe
Chain-length dependent termination in pulsed-laser polymerization, 1. Interaction with propagation
โ Scribed by Oskar Friedrich Olaj; Andreas Kornherr; Gerhard Zifferer
- Book ID
- 102943250
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 573 KB
- Volume
- 6
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1022-1344
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โฆ Synopsis
Abstract
Using a new simulation procedure in which each individual propagation step is subjected to a Poisson process it was proved that in case of chainโlength dependent termination the apparent rate of propagation no longer coincides with the true one. This is caused by the polydispersity of the chainโlength distribution of the growing chains: shorter chains are removed preferentially. This effect is comparatively small although significant. The consequences for the determination of the rate constant of chain propagation k~p~ are nearly negligible.
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