STUDIES OF POLYMERS AND POLYMERIZATION: III. THE POLYMERIZATION OF EUGENOL, SAFROLE AND THE CORRESPONDING ISO-COMPOUNDS

Abstract
Eugenol, isoeugenol, safrole and isosafrole when treated with stannic chloride yield polymers with molecular weights of the order of 2000, and when heated at 197° or 236 °C. polymers with molecular weights of the order of 1000. The ease of polymerization of the iso-compounds, which contain a semi-benzenoid conjugated system, is markedly greater than that of the normal compounds, in which such a system is lacking. The polymers are all unsaturated. Polysafrole yields safrole when subjected to pyrolytic distillation.

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