Chain transfer is a polymerization reaction by which the activity of a growing polymer chain is transferred to another molecule. Chain transfer reactions reduce the average molecular weight of the final polymer. Chain transfer can be either introduced deliberately into a polymerization (by use of a chain transfer agent) or it may be an unavoidable...
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(from the article `industrial polymers, chemistry of`) ...at some point in the middle of the chain, thus forming a new radical site from which chain growth continues. This reaction, shown in Figure 4, is ...
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