Journal of the American Chemical Society

The synthesis of polymeric ethers

MJ Rhoad, PJ Flory

Index: Rhoad; Flory Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1950 , vol. 72, p. 2216,2219

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Citation Number: 39

Abstract

Summary The free radical-initiated reaction of ethylene with several halomethanes under superatmospheric pressure has been studied. Series of products of the general formula X (CHL! Hz). Y are obtained, in which X is hydrogen or halogen, and Y is the remainder of the halomethane molecule. The average chain length, n, varies inversely with the reactivity of the halomethane.