Copolymerization of Cyclic Olefins, Trimethylethylene and Tetramethylethylene with Acrylonitrile

Abstract
The radical copolymerizations of cyclopentene, cyclohexene, cycloheptene, cyclooctene, trimethyl-, and tetramethyl-ethylene with acrylonitrile (AN, M1) were carried out, and the reactivities of these monomers toward the AN radical (1/r1) were found to be as follows: cyclopentene, 0.21; cyclohexene, 0.13; cycloheptene, 0.15; cyclooctene, 0.35; trimethylethylene, 0.37, and tetramethylethylene, 0.25. The reactivity of these internal olefins in radical polymerization was discussed.

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