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Compositional and structural studies of vinylidene chloride/vinyl chloride copolymers by pyrolysis gas chromatography
1Analytical Sciences Laboratory, Michigan Division, The Dow Chemical Company, Midland, Michigan 48667.
Abstract:
A pyrolysis gas chromatography approach has been developed to study the composition and structure of vinylidene chloride/vinyl chloride copolymers. The composition and number average sequence length, which reflects the monomer arrangement in the polymer, were calculated using formulas that incorporate the pure trimer peak intensities and hybrid trimer peak intensities. Because of the reactivity difference between vinyl chloride and vinylidene chloride monomers, the structure of the polymer has been further investigated on the basis of the percentage of grouped monomers (i.e., the number average sequence length for vinyl chloride and vinylidene chloride repeat units). For the vinylidene chloride/vinyl chloride copolymer examined in this study, the composition and number average sequence length elucidated from the pyrolysis gas chromatography study are compared to the product composition specification and/or the composition measured by (1)H-NMR.
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