ABSTRACT:In order to establish the composition equation for the bulk-copolymerization of p-chlorostyrene (monomer I) and methyl acrylate (monomer 2) at 40°C, an extraordinarily large number of careful polymerization runs were carried out covering a wide range of feed composition. The samples were analyzed for composition by both potentiometric titration for chlorine and combustion analysis for carbon. The optimum set of terminal-model parameters evaluated by a least-squares curve-fitting procedure are r 1 = 1.21 and r 2 =0.144, quite at variance with the literature values, but conform to the Q-e scheme. However, the chlorine and carbon sets of data consistently indicate failure of the terminal model to accurately represent this system. The penultimate model parameters r1 =0.92, r1 ' =2.3, and r2 ( =r/)=0.18 represent the system almost perfectly. This indicates the presence of significant penultimate effects on type-! radicals. The question as to the penultimate effects on type-2 radicals remains to be answered.