Polymer Bulletin, Vol.40, No.6, 615-621, 1998
Novel aprotic polar polymers - 3. Synthesis and properties of poly(phenyl vinyl sulfoxide)
Poly(phenyl vinyl sulfoxide) 1 was prepared by anionic polymerization and its properties as a polymer homolog of dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) were examined. Polysulfoxide 1 was found to have good miscibility with poly(vinyl acetate) as well as poly(2-methyl-2-oxazoline) and poly(N-vinylpyrrolidone) by comparing glass transition temperature(s) (T(g)s) of the mixture of these polymers with T(g)s of the original polymers by differential scanning calorimetry.