𝔖 Bobbio Scriptorium
✦   LIBER   ✦

Study on controlled radical alternating copolymerization of styrene with maleic anhydride under UV irradiation

✍ Scribed by De-Cheng Wu; Chun-Yan Hong; Cai-Yuan Pan; Wei-Dong He


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2003
Tongue
English
Weight
121 KB
Volume
52
Category
Article
ISSN
0959-8103

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis


Abstract

The copolymerization of styrene with maleic anhydride (MAh) in the presence of 1‐(ethoxycarbonyl)prop‐1‐yl dithiobenzoate was carried out under UV irradiation at room temperature, and showed ‘living’ polymerization nature which was evidenced by: linear evolution of molecular weight with conversion; and narrow molecular weight distribution (M~w~/M~n~ = 1.08–1.20). The compositional analysis and the sequence structural information of the copolymer obtained from Distortionless Enhancement by Polarization Transfer (DEPT) NMR experiments demonstrated that the copolymers obtained possess strictly alternating structure.

© 2003 Society of Chemical Industry