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The mechanism of initiation of polymerization of methyl acrylate by di-t-butyl peroxalate at 60°C, has been investigated using 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine-1-oxyl as a radical trapping agent and isolation of the resulting products. The following processes were identified: Tail addition of t-butoxy radicals to monomer, hydrogen abstraction from the methyl group of the monomer and fragmentation of the t-butoxy radicals to methyl radicals followed by tail addition of these to the methyl acrylate.
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Rizzardo, E., Solomon, D.H. A new method for investigating the mechanism of initiation of radical polymerization. Polymer Bulletin 1, 529–534 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00254480
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00254480