Abstract
AbstractIntrinsic viscosities have been measured at 25° on five ethylene–propylene copolymer samples ranging in composition from 33 to 75 mole‐% ethylene. The solvents used were n‐C8 and n‐C16 linear alkanes and two branched alkanes, 2,2,4‐trimethylpentane and 2,2,4,4,6,8,8‐heptamethylnonane (br‐C16). This choice was based on the supposition that the branched solvent would prefer the propylene segments and the linear solvent the ethylene segments, due to similarity in shape and possibly in orientational order. It was found that [η]n − [η]br ≡ Δ[η] is indeed negative for propylene‐rich copolymers, zero for a 56% ethylene copolymer, and positive for ethylene‐rich copolymers. The Stockmayer–Fixman relation was used to obtain from Δ[η] a molecular‐weight independent function of composition. The quantities (Δ[η]/[η])(1 + aM−1/2) and Δ[η]/M are linear with the mole percent ethylene in the range investigated with 200 ≤ a ≤ 2000. The possibility of using these results for composition determination in ethylene–propylene copolymers is discussed. Intrinsic viscosities in the same solvents are reported for two samples of a terpolymer with ethylidene norbornene.
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