Regularities of the radical copolymerization of dodecyl (meth) acrylate and a new cationic monomer N-(dibutylaminomethyl) methacrylamide

Abstract

The regularities of radical copolymerization of dodecyl methacrylate (DMA) or dodecyl acrylate (DA) with a new cationic monomer - N-(dibutylaminomethyl) methacrylamide (DBAMMA) in toluene solutions were determined. The copolymers formed at low conversions in the DMA-DBAMMA system are enriched in ether units, and in the DA-DBAMMA system - in aminoamide units. The relative activities of comonomers determined by the Feineman-Ross and Kehlen-Tudosh methods in the first case were 1.56-1.60 (DMA) and 0.87-0.89 (DBAMMA), in the second case - 0.53-0.64 (DA) and 0.80-0.90 (DBAMMA).