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Thermal initiation of MMA in high temperature radical polymerizations

Nising, Philip  
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Meyer, Thierry  
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Carloff, Ruediger
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2005
Macromolecular Materials and Engineering

Several researches have dealt with the thermal initiation of Me methacrylate (MMA) in the past. Some of them already discussed the presence of peroxide contg. species that are formed from dissolved oxygen and the monomer itself as main reason for this initiation. However, a more detailed investigation as well as a kinetic description of this phenomenon is still due in literature. In this paper, the formation and decompn. of Me methacrylate peroxides are described. MMA that has been in contact with air forms macromol. peroxides at temps. below 100 DegC from phys. dissolved oxygen. These peroxides have mol. wts. of approx. 3 000-5 000 g . mol-1, depending on the temp. during formation. Above this temp., these peroxides decomp. quickly and initiate the radical polymn. Depending on the reaction conditions, monomer conversions from 15 to 30% are obtained. In combination with addnl. initiators, the MMA peroxides provoke an acceleration of the reaction rate and can also lead to bimodal mol. wt. distributions. An anal. method based on UV-spectrophotometry was developed for the quantification of the peroxide content in the monomer. The kinetic rate consts. for the formation were detd. in batch expts. with purified, air-satd. monomer to be kf,0 = 6.28 . 107 l2 . mol-2 . s and EA = 7.75 . 104 J . mol-1. The decompn. rate consts. were detd. from batch dead-end polymns. and found to be kd,0 = 4.73 . 107 l . mol-1 . s-1 and EA = 8.56 . 104 J . mol-1.

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DOI
10.1002/mame.200400275
Web of Science ID

WOS:000228888700011

Author(s)
Nising, Philip  
Meyer, Thierry  
Carloff, Ruediger
Wicker, Michael
Date Issued

2005

Published in
Macromolecular Materials and Engineering
Volume

290

Issue

4

Start page

311

End page

318

Subjects

Polymerization

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Polymerization kinetics (radical

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thermal initiation of MMA in high temp. radical polymns.)

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thermal initiation methyl methacrylate radical polymn

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MMA

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High Temperature

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Polymerization

Note

CAN 143:78531, 35-3, Chemistry of Synthetic High Polymers, Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Polymer Reaction Engineering, ISIC-GPM,Swiss Federal Institute of Technology,Lausanne,Switz., Journal, 1438-7492, written in English., 94-36-0 (Dibenzoyl peroxide); 110-05-4 (Di-tert-butyl peroxide) Role: CAT (Catalyst use), USES (Uses) (thermal initiation of MMA in high temp. radical polymns.); 14180-19-9 (Methyl methacrylate peroxide) Role: FMU (Formation, unclassified), FORM (Formation, nonpreparative) (thermal initiation of MMA in high temp. radical polymns.); 80-62-6 (Methyl methacrylate) Role: RCT (Reactant), RACT (Reactant or reagent) (thermal initiation of MMA in high temp. radical polymns.)

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