Poly(N-vinylimidazole) is a weakly basic linear polymer and is soluble in aqueous media
and in various alcohols. The present study deals with the global solution properties in absolute ethanol
(M
w, R
g, R
h, A
2, and [η]). Samples were prepared by precipitating free radical polymerization in toluene
or benzene. Common flexible chain behavior of single macromolecules was found for samples of molar
mass M
w < 8 × 105 g/mol. However, large aggregates were obtained when longer chains were prepared
by reducing the initiator/monomer ratio in the system. At about the same molar mass a 3-fold larger
radius was found which only weakly further increased with the corresponding molar mass of the
aggregates. Similar breaks in behavior at the same point were found for the hydrodynamic radius, the
second virial coefficient, and the intrinsic viscosity. Power law behavior was obtained in both regimes
but with different exponents before and after the break point. In the low M
w regime of molecularly dissolved
chains the common scaling laws among the various exponents are approximately fulfilled. Above the
break point the observed exponents strongly violated these scaling relationships, which indicated the
aggregates as not self-similar to each other. This conclusion was confirmed by the behavior of the ρ =
R
g/R
h parameter and the apparent segment density and is supported by the decrease of the second virial
coefficient and the intrinsic viscosity compared to those of the molecularly dispersed molecules. The
apparent density exhibited the expected decrease with M
w for the molecules below the break point, but
conversely, it increased for the aggregates and indicated an increasingly more dense packing of segments.
The findings awoke the need of considering the dissolution mechanism that led to metastable aggregates,
rather than the formation of associates under thermodynamic equilibrium conditions.
SYNOPSISThe sorption of phenol, p-toluenesulfonic acid (p-TSA), Na-p-toluenesulfonate (Na-p-TS), 1,2-dihydroxy-3,5-benzene disulfonic acid disodium salt (Tiron), and 3-hydroxy-4(sulfonaphthylazo)-5,7-naphthalenedisulfonic acid trisodium salt (Ponceau 4R) on the macroporous anion exchangers with acrylamide structural units (weak and strong basic anion exchangers) and on the ion exchangers with amidoxime groups were studied. The maximum specific sorption ofp-TSA was almost identical with the total exchange capacity for both the weak and strong basic anion exchangers. The sorption of Na-p-TS is strongly related to the functional group structure of the anion exchangers, being significant on the strong basic anion exchangers. The maximum specific sorption of Tiron was higher than the total exchange capacity of the strong basic anion exchangers because it is mainly dependent on the ionic exchange properties. The morphological characteristics influenced only the establishment rate of the sorption equilibrium. The sorption of Ponceau 4R, which has the highest molecular weight, is important on the strong basic anion exchangers with high permanent porosity. The sorption of the organic anions is also dependent on the number of the sulfonic groups. 0 1995 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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