Ig. Rumynskaya et al., KINETICS OF STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN POLY(ACRYLONITRILE) MACROMOLECULES DURING TRANSITION TO THE COMPACT STATE, Vysokomolekularnye soedinenia. Seria A, 39(8), 1997, pp. 1382-1386
Intermediate and final cyclic structures, formed during the reaction o
f alkaline hydrolysis of poly(acrylonitrile) macromolecules in dilute
solutions, were identified by methods of optical spectroscopy. The pos
sibility to use these techniques is based on retardation of the kineti
cs of elementary reactions within a compacted polymer coil under the a
ction of alkali. Variation of the electrochemical parameters of soluti
ons allowed the absorption bands of intermediate structures in the spe
ctra to be resolved. A scheme of structural transformations in heteroc
ycles is given.