It is well known that electron-donating monomers such as styrene and butadiene can be copolymerized alternatingly with polar vinyl monomers such as methyl methacrylate and acrylonitrile in the presence of metal halides ~ '). With metal halides previously reported, such as alkylaluminium halides '), zinc chloride'), and stannic chloride'), the mole ratio of metal halide to polar vinyl monomer in the reaction mixture must be 0,3 -1 ,O or even higher, in order to achieve satisfactorily an alternate regulation of the resulting copolymer. Although a patent ' ) claims that quite a wide range of mole ratios (0,0005 to 10) of metal halide to polar vinyl monomer may be applied to achieve alternating copolymerization, no experimental results of the copolymerization at any mole ratio smaller than 0,2 has been described so far.