Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry

Nature and concentration of active species in cationic polymerization of vinyl ethers: A kinetic investigation

H Cramail, A Deffieux

Index: Cramail, Henri; Deffieux, Alain Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry, 1995 , vol. 8, # 4 p. 293 - 300

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Abstract

Abstract The Kinetics of the polymerization of isopropyl vinyl ether, isobutyl vinyl ether (IBVE) and chloroethyl vinyl ether initiated by HI in CH 2 Cl 2, in the presence and in the absence of tetrabutylammonium iodide as common anion salt, were investigated. The polymerizations proceed directly through the carbon–iodide termini without any necessary electrophilic activator. As previously observed with cyclohexyl vinyl ether, it was found that the addition ...