The compatibility of a polymeric catalyst-substrate-solvent and reaction rate. IV

This article focuses on charged polymer catalyst systems. Based on chemical thermodynamics, kinetics, and interface chemistry, a quantitative relation ship between the catalysis rate and the charge density on the various compo nents in the catalysis system was obtained. It can be formulated as follows : r = A alpha phi(2)(1 - phi(2)) exp {lambda sigma(2) exp(gamma root alpha(1- phi(2)) + beta root alpha(1 - phi(2))[alpha(1 - phi(2)) + sigma(2)phi(2)]} This formula indicates that the larger the value of the charge density of t he polymer backbone, the better the compatibility and, in turn, the faster the catalysis rate. This result is compared to our experiments and to liter ature results.