Dilute solution properties of methyl methacrylate/acrylonitrile random copolymers, 1. Mark‐Houwink relation

Abstract

Abstract Studies on the dilute solution properties of methyl methacrylate/acrylonitrile random copolymers of 0,566 mole fraction (m. f.) of acrylonitrile (AN), designated as MA3 and of 0,657 m. f. of AN, designated as MA4 reveal that the Mark‐Houwink exponent values a for MA3 lie in the range 0,6 to 0,8 and for MA4 in the range 0,8 to 1,1 in the solvents studied, viz. acetonitrile (MeCN), 2‐butanone (MEK), N , N ‐dimethylformamide (DMF) and γ‐butyrolactone (γ‐BL) at the temperatures 30°C, 45°C and 60°C. Such large values of a suggest that these copolymer chains are highly extended in these solvents. The decrease of [η] with an increase in temperature also supports the above conclusion that these are very good solvents.