Photopolymerization of Dialkyl Fumarates with Electron Donor Monomers

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-1-1998

Department

Polymers and High Performance Materials

Abstract

Fumarate esters with abstractable hydrogens were found to copolymerize via photoinitiation with a variety of electron donor monomers at a relatively rapid rate both in air and in nitrogen. In air, copolymerization rates of the dialkyl fumarates made from reaction of fumaric chloride with 1-methoxyisopropanol or 2-methoxy-1-ethanol were much faster than for monofunctional or difunctional acrylates when a photoinitiator was used to initiate polymerization. Mixtures involving dialkyl fumarates and N-vinylformamide (NVF) had polymerization exotherm rates faster than when N-vinylpyrrolidone and vinyl ethers were used as comonomers. Similar correlations with fumarate structure were observed when photoinitiator was present or absent, but faster rates were always obtained when a photoinitiator was present. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.

Publication Title

Polymer

Volume

39

Issue

13

First Page

2709

Last Page

2714

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