Abstract
The aqueous polymerization scheme of acryl amide with a redox system composed of cysteine and persulfate ion at controlled pH as well as the hydrogen ion generation scheme the during polymerization in this system were studied kinetically. The analyses of these reaction schemes were performed with a numerical method. The initiation reaction in this system was based on the formation of complexes composed of persulfate ion, cysteine and acrylamide. The propagation reaction was found to be the reaction between acrylamide monomer and the complex formed from polymer radical and acrylamide. The order of the polymerization reaction of acrylamide of 1.8 was concluded to be due to the complex formation reactions.
