Determination of the reactivity parameters for the copolymerization of butyl acrylate with vinyl acetate

Abstract

Abstract The composition of vinyl acetate–butyl acrylate copolymers obtained with batch emulsion polymerization have been studied by 1 H‐NMR. Using the integrated copolymerization Meyer–Lowry equation, the apparent reactivity ratios of the two monomers were calculated as 10.67 for r 1 , the reactivity ratio of butyl acrylate (BA), and 0.024 for r 2 , the reactivity ratio of vinyl acetate (VAC). These results were compared with those obtained by other methods.