A differential pressure technique was developed to specify the monomer partitioning
coefficients in latex systems at monomer concentrations up to saturation. Differential pressures were
measured on addition of the monomer either to water or to latex. Distribution of monomers between the
polymer-particles and aqueous phase was determined using both experimental data sets. Partition
coefficients of vinyl acetate and butyl acrylate in the latexes based mainly on the corresponding monomers
were evaluated at 65 °C. The data were correlated by a new model considering the thermodynamic
equilibrium between two liquid phases of the latex system. Monomer activity in the polymer-particle
phase is calculated in the frame of the Flory−Huggins theory, the interfacial contribution being taken
into account in terms of the Gibbs−Thomson model. The monomer activity in the aqueous phase is
correlated by the NRTL equation. Model parameters were determined independently from the pressure−concentration data for the monomer−water and monomer−polymer binaries.