Influence of Termination and Transfer on Molecular Weight Distribution of Polymers. IV. Impurity Termination

Abstract

Abstract The effect of impurity termination on molecular size distribution for anionic polymerization with instantaneous initiation is discussed. In order to derive rigorous expressions for the molecular size distribution function and other molecular parameters, this paper follows a mathematical procedure which has proved to be useful for the theoretical treatment of the kinetics of polymerizations in the previous parts of this series. The variation of all molecular parameters with the extent of polymerization is illustrated.