Thermal Polymerisation and Oligomerisation of Monomers

Two competing types of thermal reactions of monomers of different classes, namely oligomerisation and polymerisation, are examined. The characteristics of the formation of the initiating radicals and of low-molecular-weight products (dimers and trimers) and of the inhibition of the thermal polymerisation by radical acceptors have been subjected to kinetic analysis. The mechanisms of the principal pathways in this process and the relations between them are discussed.
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