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In the early stages of the conversion, the polymerization of both crotonaldehyde and cinnamaldehyde, using the sodium naphthalene complex as the catalyst, goes by a radical-ion mechanism.
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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 11, pp. 2081–2083, November 1965
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Amerik, V.V., Krentsel, B.A. The problem of the radical-ion mechanism of polymerization. Russ Chem Bull 14, 2055–2056 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00845920
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