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Accelerating effects of ferrocene in polymerization reactions

P. Kalenda and J. Jarušek

Department of the Technology of Macromolecular Compounds, Institute of Chemical Technology, CS-532 10 Pardubice

Abstract: In the present paper there are described the kinetic measurements of the polymerization velocity in styrene on the initiation with dibenzoyl peroxide, the decomposition of which to the reactive radicals is accelerated by ferrocene. The measurements gave a ferrocene-concentration dependence of styrene polymerization velocity at 30-60°C. At the same time the optimum values of temperature and ferrocene-accelerator concentration were obtained for the polymerization of styrene as running in the reaction system styrene-dibenzoyl peroxide-ferrocene.

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Chemical Papers 45 (1) 119–125 (1991)