Proliferous polymerization under specified conditions in the free-radical crosslinking copolymerization of benzyl methacrylate with neopentyl glycol dimethacrylate in the presence of lauryl mercaptan

• Published in: Macromolecular rapid communications. Vol. 20; no. 7; pp. 365 - 368
• Main Authors: Matsumoto, Akira, Mitomi, Daisuke, Aota, Hiroyuki, Ikeda, Jun-ichi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Weinheim WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH 01.07.1999; WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH; Wiley
• Subjects: Applied sciences; Copolymerization; Exact sciences and technology; Organic polymers; Physicochemistry of polymers; Preparation, kinetics, thermodynamics, mechanism and catalysts; Crosslinked copolymer; Structure processing relationship; Thiol; Chain transfer; Popcorn copolymer; Bifunctional compound; Mass copolymerization; Methacrylate copolymer; Radical copolymerization; Experimental study
• ISSN: 1022-1336; 1521-3927
• DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-3927(19990701)20:7<365::AID-MARC365>3.0.CO;2-7

During our investigation concerned with the free‐radical crosslinking copolymerization of benzyl methacrylate with neopentyl glycol dimethacrylate in the presence of lauryl mercaptan as a chain transfer agent with the intention to remove the obstacles between allyl and vinyl polymerizations, we observed, by chance, popcorn formation in spite of the presence of a large amount of chain transfer agent.