Abstract

Benzophenone-di-1,3-dioxane (BP-DDO), a novel photoinitiator for free radical polymerization, was synthesized and characterized. The photopolymerization kinetics of BP-DDO was studied by real-time infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR). When this photointiator was used to efficiently initiate polymerization of acrylates and methacrylates, there was an optimum cure rate with the increase in BP-DDO concentration. Both the polymerization rate and final conversion increased with the increase in light intensity. The kinetics study of photopolymerization of TMPTA showed that BP-DDO was a more effective photoinitiator than benzophenone and benzophenone/ethyl-4-dimethylaminobenzoate (EDAB).

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