Modeling RAFT Polymerization of Butadiene

In the recent years reversible addition fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization [1] has been used to synthesis well-defined 1,3-butadiene homo [2] and copolymers [3]. Itseems that RAFT polymerization can be adapted to 1,3- butadiene successfully and may count as an alternative forionic living polymerization however, there is no report on obtaining addition-fragmentation rate constants which is necessary for process modeling and scale up. The aim of thiswork is to obtain these kinetic coefficients via mathematical modeling in the butadiene polymerization using DDMAT as RAFT agent