Characterizing chain-end structures formed during initiation reactions of radical polymerization for MMA-St-BA terpolymer using pyrolysis-gas chromatography/atmospheric pressure chemical ionization high-resolution time-of-flight mass spectrometry.
Kenji HarataShinya KitagawaYoshinori IiguniHajime OhtaniTatsuya EzakiPublished in: Rapid communications in mass spectrometry : RCM (2020)
It was demonstrated that Py-APCI-TOFMS is a powerful technique to characterize in detail the complex end groups in multi-component polymer samples, because of the soft ionization nature of APCI and the high mass resolution of TOFMS.