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Radical polymerization of vinyl monomers as initiated by the diphenylphosphinoyl (DPO) radical which is formed by the photo-cleavage of 2,4,6-trimethylbenzoyl diphenylphosphine oxide (TMDPO) was investigated by continuous-wave electron spin resonance (cw ESR) and Fourier-transform (FT) ESR. Well-resolved hyperfine structures (hfs’s) of the starting radicals were observed by the time-resolved cw ESR for vinyl acetate, ethyl vinyl ether, styrene, methyl methacrylate (MMA), and isoprene. The rates of formation and the spin-lattice relaxation were determined by time-resolved FT ESR for these starting radicals. In the polymerization of MMA and isoprene the primary propagating radicals were found for the first time by the observation of their well-resolved hfs’s with timeresolved cw ESR. On the basis of the kinetic analysis including the spin-lattice relaxation, the rates of formation and the spin-lattice relaxation were determined by simulation of the time profile of FT ESR for the primary propagating radicals of MMA and isoprene. The rate of the primary propagating step was found to be by two orders greater than an average value of whole propagating steps as obtained by a steady-state measurement.
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Mizuta, Y., Morishita, N. & Kuwata, K. Time-resolved Fourier-transform and continuous-wave ESR studies on photo-initiated polymerization. Appl. Magn. Reson. 19, 93–110 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03162264
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