Kinetics of Free Radical Copolymerization. VII. Kinetic Analysis of Ethyl Acrylate-Styrene Copolymerization in Inert Solvent

Abstract

The copolymerization kinetics of the ethyl acrylate/styrene/azo-bis-isobutyronitrile/benzene/50°C system was found to deviate from the classical rate equation of copolymerization. The experimental results could not be interpreted by the diffusion theory, the penultimate effect, or the theory of electron donor-acceptor complexes. Our kinetic data were consistently described by the theory of hot radicals, and the 13 parameters characteristic for the copolymerization system were determined from an adequate number of data at different compositions by a nonlinear least-squares method.