Abstract
Abstract Free radicals produced in styrene and maleic anhydride mixtures and in solutions in acetone and chloroform by UV photolysis at 90 K have been studied by electron spin resonance and changes observed on warming. A doublet spectrum observed in all systems containing maleic anhydride has been assigned to the radical formed by H addition to a carbonyl group in the monomer, and not to the corresponding radical on maleic anhydride units in the copolymer or to the maleic anhydride propagating radical. Interpretations of copolymerization mechanisms based on radicals produced in frozen comonomers in bulk or in solution by photolysis or radiolysis must therefore be viewed with caution.
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