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Photoinduced Charge-Transfer Polymerization of Acrylonitrile Initiated byN-Substituted Phenothiazines

✍ Scribed by Wang, Dong-yi; Cao, Wei-xiao; Feng, Xin-de


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1996
Tongue
English
Weight
228 KB
Volume
41
Category
Article
ISSN
0959-8103

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✦ Synopsis


The polymerization of acrylonitrile (AN) initiated with phenothiazine (PTZ) and its derivatives has been studied. It is found that N-alkyl-substituted phenothiazines possess greater ability to initiate the polymerization of AN under UV irradiation. The initiation mechanism proposed is that the exciplex formed between N-substituted PTZ and AN plays a key role in the initiation process. The kinetic equation for N-methyl phenothiazine (NMP) was determined to be rate of polymerization, R, = KmMP]0.46[AN]1'44.