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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 127, Issue 4, Pages 1265-1277Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja0448667
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The Mayo and Flory mechanisms for the self-initiation of styrene polymerization were explored with B3LYP and BPW91 density functional calculations. The Diels-Alder dinner (AH) is the key intermediate, and the lowest energy pathway for AH formation is a stepwise mechanism via a gauche/sickle ((.)M(2)(.)Gs) or gauche/U-shaped ((.)M(2)(.)Gu) diradical. Ring closure of the 1,4-diradical to diphenylcyclobutane (DCB) is predicted to have a lower barrier than ring closure to AH. Dynamic effects are likely to play an important role in determining the rate of AH versus DCB formation. Hydrogen transfer from AH to styrene to generate two monoradical species is predicted to be a reasonable process that initiates monoradical polymerization.
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