Polyester Macromonomer Syntheses and Radical Copolymerization Kinetics with Styrene
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Short-chain polyester methacrylate macromonomers with alkyl, tertiary amine, carboxyl, and hydroxyl end-group functionalities are synthesized by ring-opening polymerization and subsequent modification. Monomer conversion and composition drift during batch radical copolymerizations of (macro)monomer with styrene are tracked using the in situ NMR technique in both polar and nonpolar deuterated solvents at 80 °C. For experiments with initial methacrylate molar fraction f xMA = 0.2, the effects of end-group functionality, solvent, and hydrogen bonding on relative reactivity are pronounced for monomeric analogues of the macromonomers. However, the polyester spacers significantly dilute these effects in macromonomer copolymerization, as polyester type, length, and end-group functionality did not influence copolymerization kinetics. Instead, the chemical identity up to several units from the methacryloyl group is the most important indicator of macromonomer relative reactivity.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".