Abstract
Over 200 references describing spontaneous, and chemically initiated styrene polymerization chemistry are reviewed with special emphasis on advances taking place in the past decade. The review is limited to chemistry useful for making amorphous high molecular weight polystyrene in solution polymerization processes. Chemical initiators have been categorized into three basic groups as follws: 1) anionic; 2) mono-radical; and 3) diradical. Analytical techniques used for determination of free radical polymerization kinetics and mechanisms are also discussed.
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Abbreviations
- FR:
-
free radical
- S:
-
styrene
- PS:
-
polystyrene
- A− :
-
active anion concentration
- EB:
-
ethylbenzene concentration
- EB− :
-
ethylbenzene anion concentration
- H+C−1 :
-
contaminant concentration
- [H+C−1]:
-
contaminant concentration in feed
- I:
-
initiator concentration
- Io :
-
initiator concentration in feed
- I− :
-
initiator anion
- Ct :
-
chain transfer constant
- kcts :
-
rate constant for chain transfer to ethylbenzene
- ki :
-
rate constant of n-butyl lithium initiation
- kp :
-
rate constant of polystyrene propagation
- kt :
-
rate constant of termination
- ktic :
-
rate constant of contaminant reacting with initiator
- ktpc :
-
rate constant of contaminant terminating anion
- ktt :
-
rate constant of thermal termination of anions
- Li+ :
-
lithium cation concentration
- Mn :
-
number average molecular weight
- PS:
-
terminated polystyrene concentration
- PS− :
-
growing polystyrene anion concentration
- Rcts :
-
rate of chain transfer to ethylbenzene
- Ri :
-
rate of n-butyl lithium initiation
- Rp :
-
rate of polystyrene propagation
- Rt :
-
rate of anion termination
- S:
-
styrene monomer concentration
- S0 :
-
styrene monomer concentration in feed
- Q:
-
residence time in CSTR
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