ISSN:
0449-2951
Keywords:
Chemistry
;
Polymer and Materials Science
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
,
Physics
Notes:
The effect of organic solvents on the rate of heterogeneous aqueous polymerization initiated by the K2S2O8—Na2S2O4 redox pair has been studied. The separating polymer phase remains in colloidal dispersion, the stability of which is partly due to charge and partly due to hydration. Both the water-miscible and water-immiscible organic liquids decrease the rate of polymerization, the limiting conversion, and the molecular weight of the polymers. It has been suggested that the water-miscible organic liquids preferentially solvate the latex particles and thereby decrease the hydration stability and monomer concentration in the latex particles, whereas the water-immiscible organic liquids decrease the monomer concentration in the latex particles due to the partition of the monomer between the aqueous and the nonaqueous phases. Thus the fall in the rate and molecular weight of the polymers may be ascribed to the increase in the termination rate by the faster coagulation of the latex particles and dilution of monomer concentration at the reaction site.
Additional Material:
3 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pol.1964.100020340
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