Abstract
The fundamental study of the chain transfer reaction was carried out in the system of the mixed solvents (S1 and S2). The kinetical treatment by the assumption presented by Scanlan et al. resulted the following equation in the thermal polymerization. Where C is the chain transfer constant, P, the degree of polymerization, P0, P in the bulk polymerization and ƒ, the rejnitiating efficiency of the solvent radical (0≤ƒ≤1).From the relation between the concentrations of free radicals and monomer, another expressions were derived in the catalyzed polymerization. The above equation was justified by the experiment which was made in the system of styrene, carbon tetrachloride and mercaptoethanol.
