Copolymerization of glycidyl methacrylate and N-vinyl pyrrolidone: An example for testing a new method to determine reactivity ratios

✍ Scribed by Gérard Bauduin; Bernard Boutevin; Mohamed Belbachir; Rachid Meghabar

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 292 KB
• Volume: 32
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0014-3057
• DOI: 10.1016/0014-3057(95)00157-3

✦ Synopsis

A new method

based on the measurement of maximum conversion rate of the least reactive monomer (N-vinylpyrrolidone; NVP) was used to determine the reactivity ratio of glycidyl methacrylate (MAG), that of NVP being considered to be zero. Despite a peculiar experimental difficulty due to the occurrence of NVP homopolymerization, the monomer reactivity ratio of MAG was found to be between 2.87 and 4.05 (at a 95% probability level), in good agreement with data from the literature.