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Topic: primary carbocation react with vinyl group to start cationic polymerization?  (Read 1508 times)

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Offline Cheese_Burgers

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In the presence of an acid catalyst, butylated melamine formaldehyde, is protonated at the butoxy oxygen. The free pair of electrons on the beta nitrogen (probably not referring to it correctly) can then resonate to the carbon the butoxy is attached to and kick off n-butanol. This produces a resonance structure [+N=C]<->[N-C+].

My question:

Would this primary carbocation be able to react with something like vinyl chloride to start a cationic polymerization between many vinyl chlorides? (assuming the counterion left by the acid catalyst could sufficiently stabilize the carbocation, limiting recombination or the reverse reaction to the butylated melamine formaldehyde.)

is this possible? why? why not? Thank you.

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