Preparation and Characterization of Head-to-Head Polymers. III. Head-to-Head Poly (methyl Crotonate)

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Alternating copolymers of cis-butene-2 and maleic anhydride were esterfied to the methylester which corresponds to head to head (H-H) poly(methyl crotonate). The chemical, physical, and mechanical properties and thermal degradation behavior of H-H poly (methyl crotonate) was studied and compared with the properties of head to tail (H-T) poly(methyl crotonate). This latter polymer was made by a known anionic polymerization technique and was, unlike the amorphous H-H polymer, partially crystalline. The Tg of H-H polymer was found to be higher than that of the H-T polymer. Thermal degradation behavior of H-H and H-T polymer was between the degradation behavior of H-H and H-T poly(methyl cinnamate) and poly (methyl acrylate). Poly (methyl crotonates) degraded to a substantial part to small molecules and char; methyl crotonate was found among the degradation products. H-H Poly (methyl crotonate) gave also butene-2 and a mixture of dimethyl maleate and dimethyl fumarate on pyrolysis.

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