Effect of the penultimate unit on radical stability and reactivity in free-radical polymerization

Macromolecules

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 2935-2940

  Coote, Michelle L ^a   Davis, Thomas P ^a   Radom, Leo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDITION REACTIONS; COMPOSITION EFFECTS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COPOLYMERIZATION; FREE RADICAL POLYMERIZATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE;

MOLECULAR ORBITALS;

POLYETHYLENES;

EID: 0032625783     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma9818073     Document Type: Article

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