Effect of the Molecular Structure on Polymerization in a Hetero-Phase System

Abstract

To further investigate the polymerization behaivor of N-methyl-11-acryloylamidoundecanoic acid (1) in emulsion, N-hexy1-6-acryloylamidohexanoic acid (2), N-acryloyl-N-decylglycine (3), N-acryloyl-N-hexadecylglycine (4), and N-acryloyl-N-decyl-fi-alanine (5) were prepared. Each monomer was polymerized with BPO in the hetero-phase (water and benzene) system in which the monomer itself acted as surfactant. The results show that the distance between the polymerizable group and the polar group in the monomer affects polymerizability in the hetero-phase system.