
%0 Journal Article
%A Morrow, GR 
%A Rae, ID 
%T Thermal-Degradation of Polymers and Polymer Models. IV. Thermolysis of a Polymethacrylate Model With an Unsaturated End Group
%J Australian Journal of Chemistry
%D 1987/08/01
%V 40
%N 8
%P 1477-1481
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/CH9871477
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/CH9871477 
%X Thermal degradation of a model for the 'unsaturated end group' of poly(methyl methacrylate ) gives products which suggest that homolytic bond cleavage, and not a retro-ene reaction, is the major pathway. The diester (CH3)2C(COOCH3)CH2C(COOCH3)=CH2, when heated at 250-300º, gives up to 50 mole % of methyl 2-methylpropanoate (methyl isobutyrate ). 
