ISSN:
0449-2978
Keywords:
Physics
;
Polymer and Materials Science
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
,
Physics
Notes:
The influence of the nature of exchangeable cations on the tacticity of poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) prepared from montmorillonite-MMA adsorption complexes was investigated. The strength of ion-dipole interactions was estimated either by the value of the electrostatic interaction potential or by the value of the carbonyl-stretching frequency shift. It was shown that Pi, the percentage of isotactic triads in the polymer, increases with increasing strength of the ion-dipole interactions, while the persistence ratio and the mean length of closed isotactic (or syndiotactic) sequences remain essentially unchanged regardless of the nature of the cation. It was shown that values of Pi may vary from 0.15 for weakly interacting ions to 0.5 for strongly interacting ones, reaching at the upper limit the value calculated from the model proposed in a previous paper, thus confirming its validity.
Additional Material:
6 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pol.1971.160090910
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