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Radical Polymerization: Organic chemistry 2, lab 1 5) Stirring this reaction will result in little to...

Radical Polymerization: Organic chemistry 2, lab 1

5) Stirring this reaction will result in little to no polymer formation. Why do you think this is?

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In free radical polymerisation, the first step is initiation and also the rate-limiting step is the initiation step, that is, the rate constant for initiator (benzoyl peroxide) dissociation is much smaller than that for monomer addition.

Some of the monomers may also undergo other reactions such as combination with another radical to form inactive molecules. Due to this reason the yield of polymer formation is low or sometime it may lead to zero polymer formation.

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