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The magnitude of the solvent effect varies with monomer concentration, as shown by a systematic study of monomer/solvent mixtures containing 50 vol%, 20 vol%, and 10 vol% monomer. Compared to the bulk system, both n-butanol and dimethylformamide reduce the relative reactivity of HEMA during copolymerization, while xylene as a solvent enhances HEMA reactivity. The choice of solvent has a significant impact on both copolymer composition and on the composition-averaged propagation rate coefficient (kp,cop). The pulsed laser polymerization (PLP) technique is paired with size exclusion chromatography (SEC) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) to provide kinetic coefficients for the copolymerization of HEMA with butyl methacrylate (BMA) in various solvents. Hence, the knowledge of their radical copolymerization kinetic coefficients is vital for both process and recipe improvements. Joint confidence intervals are also provided, enabling values and uncertainties for k(p) to be estimated at any temperature.Ģ-Hydroxyethyl methacrylate (HEMA) is an important component of many acrylic resins used in coatings formulations, as the functionality ensures that the chains participate in the cross-linking reactions required to form the final product. All activation parameters refer to bulk polymerizations at ambient pressure and temperatures below 100degreesC. s(-1) and an activation energy of 21.9 kJ. Thus, all data can be fitted well by a single Arrhenius relation resulting in a pre-exponential factor of 4.24 x 10(6) L. Rather remarkably, for the methacrylates under investigation, the k(p) values are all very similar. All k(p) data for each monomer are best fitted by the following Arrhenius relations: CHMA: k(P) = 10(6.80) L. The data for iBoMA are also considered reliable, but since SEC calibration was established only by a single group, the data are not considered as a benchmark data set. The values for CHMA, GMA, and BzMA are therefore recommended as constituting benchmark data sets for each monomer. The present data fulfill consistency criteria and the agreement among the data from different laboratories is remarkable. This-so-called PLP-SEC technique has been recommended as the method of choice for the determination of k(p) by the IUPAC Working Party on Modeling of Polymerisation Kinetics and Processes. All data were determined by the combination of pulsed-laser polymerization (PLP) and subsequent polymer analysis by size-exclusion chromatography (SEC). Propagation rate coefficients, k(p), which have been previously reported by several groups for free-radical bulk polymerizations of cyclohexyl methacrylate (CHMA), glycidyl methacrylate (GMA), benzyl methacrylate (BzMA), and isobomyl methacrylate (iBoMA) are critically evaluated.










