Molecular Weight Distribution and Reaction Sequence in Polymerization Kinetics
- 1 December 1961
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 35 (6), 2101-2107
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1732214
Abstract
A general technique is presented for the prediction of molecular weight distributions from an assumed reaction sequence in addition polymerizations. Several problems in Szwarc polymerizations are worked as examples.Keywords
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