ISSN:
0022-3832
Keywords:
Chemistry
;
Polymer and Materials Science
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
,
Physics
Notes:
A new initiating system, named the “Veroxazine” system, for the copolymerization of butadiene (75)-styrene (25) is described. Ferric versenate is reduced by hydrazine to the ferrous complex which in turn reacts with hydroperoxide to produce the radicals which initiate polymerization. At 5°C., with 5 parts of K-fatty acid soap, 0.1 part of Diox D, 0.1 part of N2H4·H2SO4, 0.0615 part of sodium hydroxide (to give free hydrazine base from the salt), 0.0005 M ferric iron (equivalent to 0.036 part ferric nitrate nonahydrate per 100 parts monomers), 0.0005 M versene, 1 part of K4P2O7 and 0.3 part sulfole, 70% conversion is reached in 12 hours. The rate of conversion can be varied within wide limits by changing the concentration of ferric iron, versene, or hydrazine. Typical conversion-time data at 5°C. with K-fatty acid soap, 0.1 Diox D, and 1 part of K4P2O7 are summarized below. TextFe(III)VN2H4·H2SO4, partConversion, %124812 hrs.0.005M0.002M0.114254790 - 0.002M0.001M0.111224475 - 0.001M0.0008M0.19193264850.0005M0.0005M0.16162848700.0003M0.0002M0.14101938530.001M0.0005M0.417315292 - 0.001M0.0005M0.215274081 - 0.001M0.0005M0.111213362830.001M0.0005M0.05614274766With a given concentration of ferric iron the maximum rate is found with a molar concentration of versene slightly smaller than that of ferric iron. The excess of ferric iron over versene is kept in aqueous solution as the complex with pyrophosphate. The addition of potassium pyrophosphate up to one part increases the rate of conversion and yields a normal latex free from precoagulation. In the absence of pyrophosphate a viscous latex subject to precoagulation is obtained. The effects of kind and amounts of soap, of free acid or base, of kind and concentration of hydroperoxide, kind and concentration of mercaptan, of oxygen, of methanol, and of shortstops have been investigated. Veroxazine recipes which give from 55 to 70% conversion in 12 hours at -5°C. are described.
Additional Material:
28 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pol.1952.120090406
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