'Periodica Polytechnica Budapest University of Technology and Economics'
Abstract
The authors suggested a new mechanism for the interpretation of cationic lactam
polymerization according to which in the chain propagation reaction. through the appropriate
intermediates. compounds belonging to various polymer homologous series are formed and
additional polymerization processes are superimposed onto the original ones. On the basis of the
new mechanism a kinetic model has been developed by the computer simulation of which rate
and equilibrium constants could be determined. The latter enabled. a good quantitative
description of polymerization
