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Calculation of reactivity ratios of methacrylic acid-ethyl acrylate copolymer by on-line quantitative 1H NMR spectroscopy

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The solution copolymerization of methacrylic acid (MAA) and ethyl acrylate (EA) was studied by online proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H NMR) using 2,2′–azobisisobutyronitrile as an initiator in deuterated dimethyl sulfoxide at 60 °C. The chemical compositions of the copolymer and the comonomer concentrations were determined from the conversion of comonomers to copolymer by quantitative in situ NMR monitoring to estimate the reactivity ratios of the comonomers at low conversion. This is a new and easy methodology to analyze radical copolymerization. In this research, it is shown that monomer reactivity ratios can be calculated by data collected only from one initial comonomer mixture composition via online monitoring progress of the copolymerization reaction. The reactivity ratios of MAA and EA are equal to 2.360 and 0.414, respectively. This approach is used to compute the monomer reactivity ratios in a nonlinear integrated form of the copolymerization equation which is described by Mayo and Lewis terminal model. The fairly good agreement between the results and the literature data reported for the emulsion system represent the accuracy of the reactivity ratios calculated by this new approach. The calculated reactivity ratios for emulsion copolymerization are r MAA = 2.040 and r EA = 0.470, and the previous literature data are r MAA = 2.580 and r EA = 0.157.

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    Samaneh Ashenagar, Farshid Ziaee & Seyed Mehrdad Jalilian

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Ashenagar, S., Ziaee, F. & Jalilian, S.M. Calculation of reactivity ratios of methacrylic acid-ethyl acrylate copolymer by on-line quantitative 1H NMR spectroscopy. Iran Polym J 22, 635–639 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13726-013-0162-2

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