TY - JOUR
T1 - Competitive processes in controlled cationic ring-opening polymerization of oxetane
T2 - a Lotka-Volterra predator-prey model of two growing species competing for the same resources
AU - Bouchékif, Hassen
AU - Amass, Allan J.
PY - 2011/10
Y1 - 2011/10
N2 - The activation-deactivation pseudo-equilibrium coefficient Qt and constant K0 (=Qt x PaT1,t = ([A1]x[Ox])/([T1]x[T])) as well as the factor of activation (PaT1,t) and rate constants of elementary steps reactions that govern the increase of Mn with conversion in controlled cationic ring-opening polymerization of oxetane (Ox) in 1,4-dioxane (1,4-D) and in tetrahydropyran (THP) (i.e. cyclic ethers which have no homopolymerizability (T)) were determined using terminal-model kinetics. We show analytically that the dynamic behavior of the two growing species (A1 and T1) competing for the same resources (Ox and T) follows a Lotka-Volterra model of predator-prey interactions.
AB - The activation-deactivation pseudo-equilibrium coefficient Qt and constant K0 (=Qt x PaT1,t = ([A1]x[Ox])/([T1]x[T])) as well as the factor of activation (PaT1,t) and rate constants of elementary steps reactions that govern the increase of Mn with conversion in controlled cationic ring-opening polymerization of oxetane (Ox) in 1,4-dioxane (1,4-D) and in tetrahydropyran (THP) (i.e. cyclic ethers which have no homopolymerizability (T)) were determined using terminal-model kinetics. We show analytically that the dynamic behavior of the two growing species (A1 and T1) competing for the same resources (Ox and T) follows a Lotka-Volterra model of predator-prey interactions.
KW - kinetics
KW - living
KW - Lotka-Volterra
KW - mechanism
KW - polymerization
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=81755181045&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/masy.201151015/abstract
U2 - 10.1002/masy.201151015
DO - 10.1002/masy.201151015
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:81755181045
SN - 1022-1360
VL - 308
SP - 112
EP - 121
JO - Macromolecular Symposia
JF - Macromolecular Symposia
IS - 1
ER -