화학공학소재연구정보센터
Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry, Vol.35, No.9, 1681-1687, 1997
Photopolymerization of Methyl-Methacrylate with the Use of Morpholine-Chlorine Charge-Transfer Complex as the Photoinitiator
Polymerization of methyl methacrylate (MMA) was kinetically studied under photo condition using near UV visible light at 40 degrees C and employing morpholine (MOR) -chlorine (Cl-2) charge transfer (C-T) complex as the photoinitiator. The rate of polymerization (R-p) was dependent on morpholine/chlorine mole ratio; the 1 : 2 (MOR-Cl-2) C-T complex acted as the latent initiator complex, C, which underwent further complexation with the monomer molecules to give the actual initiator complex, I. Using 1 : 2 (MOR-Cl-2) C-T complex as the latent initiator, the initiator exponent evaluated for bulk photopolymerization of MMA was 0.071 and monomer exponent determined from studies of photopolymerization in benzene diluted system was 1.10. Benzoquinone behaved as a strong inhibitor and the polymers tested positive for the incorporation of chlorine atom end groups. Polymerization followed a radical mechanism. Kinetic nonideality as revealed by low (much less than 0.50) initiator exponent and a monomer exponent of greater than unity were explained in terms of primary radical termination effect.