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Abstract
The free radical copolymerization of styrene and other vinyl monomers to produce cross-linked, network polymers is of technological importance in the production of ion-exchange resins, packings for gas-liquid and gel permeation chromatography, cross-linked latex polymers, and other products. The principal multifunctional cross-linking monomers which are used in this connection are ethylene glycol dimethacrylate and divinylbenzenes, and accurate values for reactivity ratios in their reactions with bifunctional monomers are essential for the design of copolymerization processes and products.
Wiley and co-workers have reported reactivity ratios for the copolymerizations of these monomers with styrene and with methyl methacrylate [1]. In these studies the reactivity ratios were calculated from the raw data using a graphical “method of intersections” [2]. In this procedure the differential copolymer equation is put into the form
