Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry, Vol.34, No.13, 2665-2678, 1996
An Experimental-Verification of Statistical Discrimination Between the Terminal and Penultimate Copolymerization Models
In this article, the modified Buzzi-Ferraris model discrimination method was used to design experiments to discriminate between the terminal and penultimate models for styrene methyl methacrylate (STY/MMA) copolymerization. The measured variables were C-13-NMR peak areas. The peak area assignments of Aerdts(8) were used. After nine experiments, the terminal model was picked over the penultimate model at 99.99% confidence. More importantly, the experimental data showed that computer simulated data used in previous studies were realistic, and the conclusions drawn from the simulation studies were valid. This experimental verification continues to show that the use of statistical model discrimination techniques can improve our ability to discriminate between competing copolymerization models.
Keywords:FREE-RADICAL COPOLYMERIZATION;DESIGNED EXPERIMENTS;RATE CONSTANTS;KINETICS;STYRENE;METHYLMETHACRYLATE;PROPAGATION