ISSN:
0022-3832
Keywords:
Chemistry
;
Polymer and Materials Science
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
,
Physics
Notes:
The stabilization energy due to the conjugation taking place between a monomer and an ion in the transition state is calculated by the LCAO perturbation theory, in the same way in which the reactivity in radical copolymerization has previously been treated. In terms of this stabilization energy, the reactivity ratios of several monomer pairs in ionic copolymerization are satisfactorily interpreted. It is noted that, by the present method, both the radical and ionic copolymerization can be treated in a unified manner, whereas it is difficult in existing empirical methods. The positions of attack in polymer ions as well as in monomers, which are predicted by the frontier electron densities, are shown to agree well with experimental facts. The relative reactivities of vinyl monomers in ionic homopolymerization is also explained successfully by the magnitude of the localization energy computed by the LCAO method.
Additional Material:
1 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pol.1957.1202611406
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