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The product is polystyrene. As alkenes can polymerize in somewhat straightforward radical reactions, they form useful compounds such as polyethylene and polyvinyl chloride (PVC), [3] which are produced in high tonnages each year [3] due to their usefulness in manufacturing processes of commercial products, such as piping, insulation and packaging.
Graft copolymerization: The growing polystyrene chain reacts with a double bond of the polybutadiene. As a result, several polystyrene chains are attached to one polybutadiene. S represents in the figure the styrene repeat unit; B the butadiene repeat unit. However, the middle block often does not consist of such depicted butane homo-polymer ...
One of the better-known examples of a graft polymer is a component used in high impact polystyrene, consisting of a polystyrene backbone with polybutadiene grafted chains. The graft copolymer consists of a main polymer chain or backbone (A) covalently bonded to one or more side chains (B)
Note that different copolymer sequencing is sufficient to define a structural difference, thus an A-B diblock copolymer with A-B alternating copolymer side chains is properly called a graft copolymer. For example, polystyrene chains may be grafted onto polybutadiene, a synthetic rubber which retains one reactive C=C double bond per repeat unit.
It is one of the most developed methods in chain-growth polymerization. Currently, most polymers in our daily life are synthesized by free radical polymerization, including polyethylene, polystyrene, polyvinyl chloride, polymethyl methacrylate, polyacrylonitrile, polyvinyl acetate, styrene butadiene rubber, nitrile rubber, neoprene, etc.
In one copolymer, the monomers can be almost perfectly alternating. [1] but (random) copolymerisation with less than 50% maleic anhydride content is also possible. [2] The polymer is formed by a radical polymerization, using an organic peroxide as the initiator. The main characteristics of SMA copolymer are its transparent appearance, high heat ...
In an ethene monomer, one electron pair is held securely between the two carbons in a sigma bond. The other is more loosely held in a pi bond. The free radical uses one electron from the pi bond to form a more stable bond with the carbon atom. The other electron returns to the second carbon atom, turning the whole molecule into another radical.
a.) Shows the general form of CpA initiators with one Cp ring and a coordinated Nitrogen b.) Shows the CpA initiator used in the living polymerization of 1-hexene (5) CpA initiators have one cyclopentadienyl substituent and one or more nitrogen substituents coordinated to the metal center (generally a Zr or Ti) (Odian). The dimethyl ...