Copolymerization of N-vinylpyrrolidone with N,N-dimethyl-N,N-diallylammonium chloride

Abstract

The possibility of synthesizing copolymers of N,N-dimethyl-N,N-diallylammonium chloride (DMDAAC) and N- vinylpyrrolidone (VP) was demonstrated and the features of radical copolymerization of these monomers in aqueous and alcohol media were investigated. The optimum conditions of conducting the reaction were determined and the kinetic features of the copolymerization reaction in the region of low degrees of conversion, for which the usual order mechanisms for radical polymerization are preserved, were investigated. The dependence of the initial rate of co polymerization on the composition of the starting mixture of comonomers is nonlinear, and the rate of copolymerization decreases significantly as the concentration of DMDAAC in the starting mixture increases. The composition of copolymers formed was studied and the copolymerization constants r1 ef=r2 ef=1 were calculated, i.e., the system is azeotropic, which is also detected for significant degrees of conversion.