“…In actual experiments, changes in the number of chemical bonds between macromolecules were monitored using a specially developed precise refractometric method. 80 In the first stage, a very small number of chemical bonds between the macromolecules is formed; however, most of the macromolecules become bonded in pairs. In the second stage, the reaction proceeds in the macromolecular coils formed in the first stage and consists in an increase in the number of chemical bonds between macromolecules already bonded, i.e., it is an intramolecular reaction of the first kind.…”