Abstract

The study of polymer stability can often be aided by the determination of the chemical mechanisms involved in a specific mode of degradation. The technique of evolved gas analysis (EGA) has been combined with kinetic FTIR to identify the reaction products of the thermal and oxidative degradation of poly(vinyl butyral). The data suggests a mechanism involving dehydration of vinyl alcohol functionalities followed by oxidative attack.

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