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Chemical recycling of commodity vinyl polymers: selective preparation of end‐reactive oligomers by controlled thermal degradation
Author(s) -
Sawaguchi T,
Suzuki Y,
Sakaki A,
Saito H,
Yano S,
Seno M
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
polymer international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.592
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1097-0126
pISSN - 0959-8103
DOI - 10.1002/1097-0126(200009)49:9<921::aid-pi372>3.0.co;2-3
Subject(s) - macromonomer , degradation (telecommunications) , polymer , materials science , chemical engineering , polymer chemistry , polymer degradation , thermal , polymer science , organic chemistry , chemistry , copolymer , composite material , telecommunications , physics , meteorology , computer science , engineering
A newly designed experimental apparatus has been developed to effectively depress the secondary reactions of volatiles, which are the primary products of thermal degradation of polymers. In this communication, we report that controlled thermal degradation of polystyrenes and polypropylenes leads to effective preparation of novel macromonomer‐like oligomers and telechelic oligomers. © 2000 Society of Chemical Industry