Observation and analysis of a slow termination process in the atom transfer radical polymerization of styrene

Tetrahedron

Volumn 53, Issue 45, 1997, Pages 15321-15329

  Matyjaszewski, Krzysztof ^a   Davis, Kelly ^a   Patten, Timothy E ^a,b   Wei, Mingli ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADICAL; STYRENE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OXIDATION; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030662031     PISSN: 00404020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-4020(97)00965-4     Document Type: Article

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