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Surface properties of poly(styrene-co-n-butyl acrylate) binary copolymers: Effect of chain microstructure and composition
The regularities of changing of surface energy characteristics of poly(styrene-co-n-butyl acrylate) binary copolymers films at varying of chain microstructure, composition and thermodynamic quality of solvent, fr...
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Homophase and heterophase polymerizations of butyl acrylate mediated by poly(acrylic acid) as a reversible addition–fragmentation chain-transfer agent
The radical polymerization of n-butyl acrylate in organic, aqueous, and water–alcohol media in the presence of poly(acrylic acid) containing a trithiocarbonate group within the chain is studied for the first time...
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Controlled radical copolymerization of styrene with acrylic acid and tert-butyl acrylate under conditions of reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer: Control of the chain microstructure
The copolymerization of styrene and acrylic acid and the copolymerization of styrene and tert-butyl acrylate that are mediated by benzyl dithiobenzoate and dibenzyl trithiocarbonate as reversible addition-fragmen...
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Specific features of the copolymerization of acrylonitrile and acrylamide in the presence of low-molecular-mass and polymeric trithiocarbonates and properties of the obtained copolymers
Regularities of the formation of acrylonitrile-acrylamide copolymers obtained from initial monomer feeds containing 1–50 wt % acrylamide in DMSO solutions with the participation of low-molecular-mass and polym...
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Controlled copolymerization of acrylonitrile in bulk via the reversible addition-fragmentation chain-transfer mechanism
The pseudoliving radical binary copolymerization of acrylonitrile with methyl acrylate, styrene, n-butyl acrylate, and tert-butyl acrylate in bulk in the presence of the reversible addition-fragmentation chain-tr...
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Determination of the rate constants of recombination of macroradicals and stable radicals via the competitive-inhibition method
The rate constants of recombination, k X, of propagating radicals with nitroxides in pseudoliving radical polymerization are determined via the competitive-inhibition method with the use of ESR sp...
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Controlled synthesis of multiblock copolymers by pseudoliving radical polymerization via the reversible addition-fragmentation chain-transfer mechanism
With the use of two classes of reversible addition-fragmentation chain-transfer agents—dithiobenzoates and trithiocarbonates—multiblock copolymers based on styrene and n-butyl acrylate, which are the best-studied...
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An unusual mechanism of polymerization of MMA initiated by ammonia-triisobutyl borane and atmospheric oxygen
The kinetics of polymerization of methyl methacrylate in vacuum initiated by ammonia-triisobutyl borane (iso-Bu3B · NH3) oxidized in air is studied. It is shown that the rate of reaction shows the first order wit...
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Pseudoliving radical polymerization of methyl methacrylate in the presence of S,S′-bis(methyl-2-isobutyrate) trithiocarbonate
The polymerization of MMA mediated by symmetric trithiocarbonate as a reversible addition-fragmentation chain-transfer agent is studied. It is shown that the process proceeds according to the two-stage pseudol...
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Mechanism of free-radical copolymerization of styrene with acrylonitrile and methacrylonitrile mediated by 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-1-piperidinyloxy
By the examples of chemically similar styrene-acrylonitrile and styrene-methacrylonitrile systems, substantially different mechanisms of TEMPO-mediated copolymerization have been theoretically predicted and ex...
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Pseudoliving equilibrium involving propagating radicals and macronitroxides of various chemical natures
Constants characterizing the pseudoliving process involving a poly(methacrylate) propagating radical and a polystyrene macronitroxide based on 2-methyl-2-nitrosopropane have been determined for the first time....
