Quasiliving Carbocationic Poiymerization. III. Quasiliving Polymerization of lsobutylene

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Abstract
The polymerization of isobutylene has been investigated by the use of the steady, slow, continuous monomer addition technique in the presence of a variety of initiating systems, i.e., “H2O”/TiCl4, “H2O”/AlCl3, C6H5C(CH3)2Cl/TiCl4, p-ClCH2 C6(CH3)4* CH2Cl/AlCl3 at -50°C. Quasiliving polymerizations have been obtained with the “H2O” and C6H5(CH3)2Cl/TiC14 systems in 60/40 v/v n-hexane/methylene chloride solvent mixtures with very slow monomer input. After a brief “flash” polymerization, the M n of PIB increased linearly with the cumulative amount of monomer added (consumed); however, the number of polymer molecules formed also increased, indicating the presence of chain transfer to monomer. With the “H2O”/TiCl4 initiating system, M n,max was 56,000 and M w /M n < 2.0. By the use of the C6H5C(CH3)2CL/TiCl4 initiating system, quasiliving polymerization has been achieved and chain transfer could virtually be eliminated.