Soluble high polymers from allyl methacrylate

Abstract

Abstract Allyl methacrylate has been polymerized by free‐radical methods and found to yield a soluble polymer in carbon tetrachloride, dioxane, and diallyl ether solutions. The overall rate equation in diallyl ether is R p = k [ln] 0.7 [M] 1.6 . It is suggested that propagation and cyclization reactions proceed only via addition to the methacrylyl groups of the monomer. Some degradative chain transfer occurs with the allyl groups, and it is considered that the solvents may ensure the production of soluble polymers by reactions in which allyl–radical side chains are terminated without crosslinking.