I am performing rate of reaction studies on hydrogels with 2 monomers and crosslinker. We can look at absorbance of a single wavelength of light over the course of the reaction through UV-Vis to determine our reaction rate, but I don't understand how that would relate to rate constants within the equation. I'm having a hard time finding resources to understand the kinetics on my own, so I'm hoping maybe someone here has already dealt with this problem and can point me in the right direction. Thanks.
Dear Curtis Session, it is not a problem at all, may be simply you got such a feeling because you are not involved in polymer science field. If you take any polymer chemistry textbook such as Odian's and Cowie books, you will find specific chapters devoted to the mecanistic study of copolymerization. In a brief, it is the reactivities ratios that modt likely govern the relative copolymerization kinetics of the monomers in question bedides the other parameters such as temperature, concentration, medium, and so on. So I strogly advise you to go directly to read books on copolymerization. My Regards
Thank you Abdelkader, I've looked at both of those textbooks and they seem like just the thing I need!
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