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Carbon‐13 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy of polystyrene and poly‐α‐methylstyrene

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In this article, the microtacticity of polystyrene and poly-α-methylstyrene was determined from a high-resolution NMR spectra with proton spin decoupling and it was confirmed that the nuclear OVERHAUSER effect due to proton decoupled has little effect on the relative intensities of the peaks assigned to chemically equivalent carbons except for stereochemical configuration.
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The carbon-13 high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance spectra with proton spin decoupling of polystyrene and poly-α-methylstyrene were measured. The spectra clearly split corresponding to triad, tetrad, and partially pentad placements, and these peaks were tentatively assigned. By comparison of the triad tacticity of poly-α-methylstyrene determined from carbon-13 spectra with that from proton spectra, it was confirmed that the nuclear OVERHAUSER effect due to proton decoupling has little effect on the relative intensities of the peaks assigned to chemically equivalent carbons except for stereochemical configuration. The stereospecific polymerization mechanisms are discussed on the basis of the microtacticity determined from carbon-13 spectra. As a result, it is concluded that poly-α-methylstyrene polymerized with cationic and anionic catalysts can be described by BERNOULLIAN statistics, while the atactic polystyrene does not obey BERNOULLIAN but first or second order MARKOVIAN statistics. Hochaufgeloste 13C-NMR-Spektren von Polystyrol und Poly-α-methylstyrol werden unter Bedingung der 1H-Spinentkopplung aufgenommen. Die Spektren zeigen klare Aufspaltungen, die den Triaden, Tetraden und teilweise den Pentaden entsprechen; die verschiedenen Signale werden versuchsweise zugeordnet. Durch Vergleich der Triaden-Taktizitaten von Poly-α-methylstyrol auf Grund der 13C-NMR-Spektren mit den Protonen-Spektren konnte gezeigt werden, das der OVERHAUSER-Effekt die relativen Intensitaten der Signale von chemisch aquivalenten Kohlenstoffatomen nur wenig beeinflust, mit Ausnahme bei der stereochemischen Konfiguration. Die Mechanismen der stereospezifischen Polymerisation werden auf der Grundlage der durch 13C-NMR bestimmten Mikrotaktizitat diskutiert. Die kationische und die anionische Polymerisation von α-Methylstyrol kann durch die BERNOULLI-Statistik beschrieben werden, wogegen das ataktische Polystyrol der MARKOV-Statistik gehorcht.

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Determination of triad sequence distribution of copolymers of maleic anhydride and its derivates with donor monomers by 13C n.m.r. spectroscopy

Nguyen T.Hieu Ha
- 01 Feb 1999 - 
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