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EUROPEAN POLYMER JOURNAL
Volume 38, Issue 9, Pages 1777-1782Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-3057(02)00055-1
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monovinyl/divinyl copolymerization; crosslinking; gelation; network formation; hydrogen bond; physical crosslinking
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The effect of physical interaction through hydrogen bonds on the intermolecular crosslinking reaction leading to the promoted gelation in free-radical crosslinking monovinyl/divinyl copolymerizations was discussed froth the standpoint of the control of network formation. The solution copolymerizations of benzyl methacrylate (BzMA) with 2 mol%, of 1,6-hexanediol dimethacrylate in t-butylbenzene were conducted in the absence and presence of different amounts of mono(2-methacryloyloxyethyl) succinate (MMOES). Gelation was promoted by the addition of MMOES and the ratio of the actual gel point to the theoretical one became smaller: this would be related to the formation of hydrogen bonds between carboxyl groups introduced into prepolymer and growing polymer radical. As an extension of the above discussion, we treated the effect of hydrogen bonds on the gelation in the crosslinking BzMA/triicosaethylene glycol dimethacrylate copolymerization. The addition of MMOES obviously promoted the gelation. The ratio of the actual gel point to the theoretical one calculated according to Stockmayer's equation [J. Chem. Phys. 12 (1944) 125] was obtained as 1.9, very close to unity. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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