Preferred Label : chain transfer;
IUPAC definition : The abstraction, by the radical end of a growing chain-polymer, of an atom from another
molecule. The growth of the polymer chain is thereby terminated but a new radical,
capable of chain propagation and polymerization, is simultaneously created. For the
example of alkene polymerization cited for a chain reaction, the reaction: represents
a chain transfer, the radical Cl sub 3 /sub C· inducing further polymerization:
The phenomenon occurs also in other chain reactions such as cationic polymerization.;
Origin ID : C00963;
See also
The abstraction, by the radical end of a growing chain-polymer, of an atom from another
molecule. The growth of the polymer chain is thereby terminated but a new radical,
capable of chain propagation and polymerization, is simultaneously created. For the
example of alkene polymerization cited for a chain reaction, the reaction: represents
a chain transfer, the radical Cl sub 3 /sub C· inducing further polymerization:
The phenomenon occurs also in other chain reactions such as cationic polymerization.
