TY - JOUR
AU - Rideal, Eric K.
AB - J. WEISS THE KINETICS OF POLYMERISATION PROCESSES. BY G. GEE AND ERIC K. RIDEAL. Received 17th May, 193 j. The study of the kinetics of processes of polymerisation has been largely neglected. Two opposing tendencies with respect to the classi- fication of polymerisation reactions may be observed : Carothers has pointed out the essential unity of the whole field, whereas Chalmers prefers to consider a number of divisions which seem at first sight a little arbitrary. It is suggested that the mechanism which is proposed below may serve to show the relationship between polymerisation processes whose kinetics are outwardly very different. Chalmers has discussed the two principal mechanisms which have been advanced to account for the observed facts of polymerisation, namely lcarothers, Chem. Rev., 1931, 8, 378; J.A.C.S., ~gzgonwards. Chalmers, J.A.C.S., 1934, 56, 912 ; Can. J. Res., 1932, 7, 113. THE KINETICS OF POLYMERISATION PROCESSES the " Stepwise " and polymerisation chain processes. It is, of course, sufficiently clear that the former cannot, without physically improbable assumptions, lead to polymers of long chain length, and it seems to be now generally accepted that any true polmerisation-giving products more than two units long-proceeds by a chain mechanism. Such cases 
TI - The kinetics of polymerisation processes
JF - Transactions of the Faraday Society
DO - 10.1039/tf9353100969
DA - 1935-01-01
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SP - 969
EP - 979
VL - 31
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