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THE dimerization products of chloroprene have been shown to consist principally of two substituted cyclo-hexenes and an eight-membered cyclic diene1. Carothers et al.2 have noted the presence of a distinct oligomeric fraction in the polymerization products of chloroprene, and more recently Klebanskii et al.3 have shown that this fraction contains both six- and eight-membered cyclic dimers. In previous kinetic studies of the thermal polymerization of chloroprene, no special account has been taken of the formation of dimers; it has been tacitly assumed, for example, that the rate and the observed activation energy of the thermal polymerization4,5 refer to a direct polymerization of the chloroprene monomer.
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LEEMING, P., LEHRLE, R. & ROBB, J. Unusual Role of Dimers in Thermal Polymerization of Chloroprene. Nature 207, 403–404 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/207403b0
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