Radical Copolymerization of N‐Vinylformamide with Methylvinylketone: An Approach to Iminium/Imine Ring Containing Polymers

The free radical copolymerization of N ‐vinylformamide (NVF) with methylvinylketone in water and the subsequent alkaline or acidic hydrolysis produce iminium structures containing polymers. It can be concluded from the copolymerization parameters ( r N ‐vinylformamide = 0.02, r methylvinylketone = 0.50) that alternating copolymers are formed which contain few amounts with statistically arranged monomer sequences. The acidic hydrolysis of the...