Ei. Aleksandrova et al., PREPARATION AND REACTIVITY OF METAL-CONTAINING MONOMERS .27. THERMAL DECAY OF COBALT DIACRYLATE, Russian chemical bulletin, 42(2), 1993, pp. 264-269
The thermal decay of unsaturated cobalt carboxylate, Co(CH2=CHCOO)(2).
H2O (1), involves dehydration, thermolysis, and solid-phase polymeriza
tion processes. Within 350-390 degrees C up to conversions eta = 0.90
divided by 0.95 the rate of decay obeys the first-order equation: W(et
a) = d eta/dt= k(1-eta), where k = 3.10(14)exp[-240/(RT)] [s(-1)]. The
products of the decay of 1 were analyzed by IR and mass spectroscopy
as well as by optical microscopy. It was found that the thermal polyme
rization of 1, initiated by the radicals formed upon thermolysis, give
s rise to the formation of polymeric products stable up to 350 degrees
C.