Abstract
The mechanism of the chain propagation in alternating copolymerizations has been studied on monomers of similar chemical composition, namely the acceptors (diethyl maleate-DEM and maleic anhydride-MA) and donors (vinyl phenylate-VP and vinyl butylate-VB). The ESR method has shown the chain propagation in the system DEM-VP and MA-VP to be an alternating addition of the monomer molecules to the growing macroradicals, although some donor-acceptor comonomer complexes were found in the latter case to be present in solution; the chain propagation in system MA-VB is an addition reaction between the binary comonomer complexes. The studied pairs of monomers were found to have a change of the chain propagation mechanism from a consecutive addition of the individual monomers to one in which the binary donor-acceptor complexes add on to the growing radicals as the donor acceptor reaction increases in intensity.
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