Organic reactions under high pressure. IX. The effect of pressure on the stereochemistry of methyl methacrylate polymerization
β Scribed by Walling, Cheves ;Tanner, Dennis D.
- Publisher
- Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
- Year
- 1963
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 304 KB
- Volume
- 1
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0449-2951
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β¦ Synopsis
Abstract
The radical polymerization of methyl methacrylate has been carried out at 51Β°C. over a pressure range of 1β8000 kg./cm.^2^, and the stereochemistry of the polymer analyzed by NMR spectroscopy. Over the entire pressure range, the stereochemistry of addition is independent of the stereochemistry of the growing polymer chain. The percentage of syndiotactic linkages decreases from about 75% to 62%, and the change in the resulting distribution of stereosequences is calculated. It is concluded that the transition state for syndiotactic addition is slightly larger than that for isotactic addition to the growing chain.
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
On the basis of the electrostriction theory (1), Ellis et al (2) predicted that for a reaction between an ion and a neutral molecule, pressure changes should have little effect on a reaction constant, ~ , of the Hnmmett equation. In such a reaction, they considered, A aV @, which represents the vol