Features of radical copolymerization initiated by manganese triacetylacetonate

A comprehensive study of the kinetics of reactions of binary copolymerization of vinyl acetate with N-vinyl (N-vinylsuccinimide and N-vinyl-3(5)-methylpyrazole) and acrylic (2-hydroxyethylmethacrylate) monomers in different media was conducted. It is shown that the use of manganese triacetylacetonate as an initiator makes it possible to bring together the relative activities of monomers due to the complexation of manganese trisacetylacetonate and vinyl acetate molecules. This leads to a change in the microstructure of copolymers and to the production of macrochains with improved interleaving of monomeric links.