Monodisperse poly(chloromethylstyrene-co-divinylbenzene-80) microspheres of 4-6-m diameter were prepared by precipitation copolymerization in neat acetonitrile and in acetonitrile/toluene mixtures. These particles have clean surfaces due to the absence of any added stabilizer and up to 0.5 cm 3 /g p
Porous monodisperse poly(divinylbenzene) microspheres by precipitation polymerization
✍ Scribed by Wen-Hui Li; Harald D. H. Stöver
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 305 KB
- Volume
- 36
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0887-624X
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✦ Synopsis
The precipitation polymerization of commercial divinylbenzene in acetonitrile containing up to 40 vol. % toluene or other cosolvents is shown to produce novel porous monodisperse poly(divinylbenzene) microspheres. These microspheres have diameters between 4 and 7 mm, total pore volumes of up to 0.52 cm 3 /g, and surface areas of up to 800 m 2 /g. As no surfactant nor stabilizer was used in the preparation of these particles, their surfaces are free of any such residues. The particles were slurry-packed into stainless steel columns for size exclusion chromatography evaluation, and the results show an exclusion limit at molecular weights of 500 g/mol.
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