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Estimation of rate constants during polypropylene autoxidation
Author(s) -
Reich Leo,
Stivala S. S.
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
journal of applied polymer science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.575
H-Index - 166
eISSN - 1097-4628
pISSN - 0021-8995
DOI - 10.1002/app.1969.070130103
Subject(s) - autoxidation , reaction rate constant , polypropylene , thermodynamics , tacticity , boss , materials science , chemistry , computational chemistry , polymer , organic chemistry , physics , kinetics , quantum mechanics , polymerization , metallurgy
Recently, Chien and Boss calculated rate constants for the autoxidation of isotactic polypropylene based upon a postulated relatively simple scheme. Electron spin resonance, volumetric, and chemical techniques were employed. It behooved the authors of this paper to demonstrate that similar values of these rate constants could also be calculated from a more general scheme. From this general scheme, expressions were derived which involved the rate constants of interest and other constants which had been previously calculated from experimental data based upon the use of infrared absorption techniques. The values of our calculated rate constants at various temperatures agreed well with those reported by Chien and Boss where comparison was possible.