Dilute solution properties of alternating copolymers from acrylonitrile and α‐methylstyrene

Abstract

Kuhn‐Mark‐Houwink‐Sakurada relations were obtained in various solvents for alternating copolymers from acrylonitrile and α‐methylstyrene. The values of the unperturbed dimension and the conformational parameter were determined using usual extrapolation techniques. The values of the unperturbed dimensions are dependent on the solvent and are quite different from the values calculated on the basis of additivity rules from the unperturbed dimensions of the parent homopolymers.