Scaling-up of poly(vinyl chloride) prepared by single electron transfer degenerative chain transfer mediated living radical polymerization in water media: 1) Low molecular weight. Kinetic analysis

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 169, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 399-413

  Coelho, Jorge F J ^a,b   Fonseca, A C ^a   Gois, J R ^a   Gonçalves, Pedro M O F ^b   Popov, Anatoliy V ^c   Gil, M H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b Cires SA Companhia Industrial de Resinas Sinteticas   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Living radical polymerization; Poly(vinyl chloride); Scale up

Indexed keywords

CONVENTIONAL FREE-RADICAL POLYMERIZATION; DEGENERATIVE CHAIN TRANSFER; GLASS REACTORS; KINETIC ANALYSIS; KINETIC STUDY; LIVING RADICAL POLYMERIZATION; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT; SCALE-UP; SCALING-UP; SINGLE ELECTRON TRANSFER; SUSPENDING AGENTS; THERMAL STABILITY; WATER MEDIA;

ATOM TRANSFER RADICAL POLYMERIZATION; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; FREE RADICALS; POLYMERS; POLYVINYL CHLORIDES; REACTION KINETICS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

FREE RADICAL POLYMERIZATION;

EID: 79955026946     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2011.03.023     Document Type: Article

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