Collect. Czech. Chem. Commun.
1980, 45, 2761-2765
https://doi.org/10.1135/cccc19802761
Some organic lithium compounds as initiators of the anionic polymerization of methyl methacrylate
Lubomír Lochmann, Rajib L. De, Josef Janča and Jiří Trekoval
Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 162 06 Prague 6
Abstract
The presence of α-lithio ketone in the initiation mixture formed by a reaction between butyllithium and methyl pivalate was demonstrated. In the initiation of the polymerization of methyl methacrylate α-lithio ketones exhibit high efficiency, which can be enhanced by the effect of lithium alkoxides, in particular of lithium tert-butoxide.
