Delyara A. Gordon

The kinetics and mechanism of benzoyl peroxide- and azobisisobutyronitrile-initiated polymerization of acrylic acid and methyl acrylate in the temperature range of 20–40°C have been investigated. In the case of evacuation of the monomer + initiator system, the polymerization proceeds without heating or other energetic impacts on the system. The polymer yield depends on the initiator concentration and the temperature and time of sample thermostating. It has been shown by EPR that the monomers affect the rate of initiator decomposition into radicals. The structures of intermediate complexes formed in the acrylic acid + azobisisobutyronitrile system have been determined by quantum-chemical calculations, and the activation energies of the relevant processes have been calculated.

Using EPR spectroscopy, it has been established that monomers affect the decomposition rate of their polymerization initiators by forming complexes with them. Several structures of the...

With the use of EPR, UV–VIS, and IR spectroscopy, calorimetry, and elemental analysis, it has been found that radicals are spontaneously formed under the action of molecular bromine on the methyl acry

By electron spin resonance, ultraviolet-visible and infrared spectroscopy, and chromatography, calorimetry, elemental analysis and gravimetric methods, we determined the low-temperature impact of molecular chlorine on monomers and the free radicals that spontaneously form. The radicals that formed initiated the polymerization and chlorination reactions that occurred during the mixture of chlorine+monomer, which were prepared at 77 K and heated to 300 K. For the monomers that were in solid state at 300 K, the reactions proceeded in the temperature range near the chlorine melting point (170 K), whereas for the monomers that were in the liquid state at 300 K, the reactions occurred in the temperature range near the monomer melting point.