| Abstract: | 2-Pyrimidyl acrylamide monomer (2PA) has been prepared by the reaction of 2-amino pyrimidine with acrylolyl chloride in the presence of triethylamine as catalyst. Its structure was confirmed by IR and 1H NMR spectroscopy. Ternary copolymerizations of 2-pyrimidyl acrylamide monomer (2PA) with methyl acrylate (MA), methyl methacrylate (MMA), ethyl acrylate (EA), butyl acrylate (BuA) and acrylonitrile (AN) were carried out in THF at 65°C in the presence of a free radical initiator. Experimental terpolymerization data agree well with calculations based on the Alfrey–Goldfinger equation. The determination of unitary, binary and ternary azeotropies of the various systems studied were easily handled by a computer. The ternary azeotropic compositions for 2PA–MA–AN and 2PA–MMA–AN were 32.20:17.5:50.30 and 13.54:52.64:33.82mol%, respectively. Pseudo-azeotropic regions were identified where the deviation between feed and polymer composition is very small. |
