The copolymerizations of acrylonitrile and methyl acrylate with propylene, isobutylene, butadiene, styrene, and vinyl chloride and the copolymerizations of methacrylonitrile and methyl methacrylate with propylene in the presence of ethylaluminium dichloride as the complexing agent were studied. When the polar vinyl monomer is not completely complexed by ethylaluminium dichloride in the copolymerizations of acrylonitrile with propylene, isobutylene, and vinyl chloride, and in those of methacrylonitrile and methyl methacrylate with propylene, copolymers rich in polar vinyl monomer were found. In the copolymerization of acrylonitrile with propylene, the polar vinyl monomer content in the copolymer was found to increase with decreasing mole ratio ethylaluminium dichloride/acrylonitrile in the monomer feed. In