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Sulfur based polymer worksheet Name: Instructions: Answer all questions in this worksheet. Your answers may be typed or handwritten in full sentences. Upload your complete work as a SINGLE PDF FILE on the submission box in Canvas. 1. Consider the following literature data reported for the polymerization reactions conducted in this lab: Sulfur weight % Styrene weight % Alpha-methyl styrene weight % Divinyl benzene weight % Time for polymer formation (min) Reaction 1 70 20 0 10 12 Reaction 2 70 0 10 20 7 Reaction 3 70 0 0 30 5 a. Which of the three reactions did you conduct? b. Compare the time it took for your reaction to form a polymer compared to time reported in the literature. What factors might account for differences in reaction time? (2 points) c. Comment on the trends in reaction times on the table above. What is the correlation between reaction time and divinyl benzene content? What is the chemical basis of this correlation? (5 points) 2. Consider another reaction (“reaction 4”) that used only sulfur and styrene in a 70:30 wt % ratio. This polymer takes approximately two hours to form. Why would this reaction so much longer than the polymer formations that we performed in lab? (3 points) Sulfur weight % Styrene weight % Alpha-methyl styrene weight % Divinyl benzene weight % Time for polymer formation (min) Reaction 4 70 30 0 0 120 3. Report the λ max observed in your UV-Vis spectrum. Does the observed λ max wavelength fall in the UV or visible light part of the electromagnetic spectrum? Explain what the results mean in relation to the composition of the polymer, the color of the sample, and the reaction outcome. (5 points)
4. Show a mechanism for the polymer formed from sulfur and DVB, accounting for the normal chain extension of the polymer as well as crosslinking from the bifunctional nature of the DVB. (5 points)
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