Configurational statistics of polymers obtained by ring‐opening polymerization of heterocyclic monomers
Maurice Sépulchre · Die Makromolekulare Chemie · 1988
Abstract A general reexamination of the configurational statistics of polymers obtained by ringopening polymerization of heterocyclic monomers is presented. The polymers under study involve one or two asymmetric centres in the main chain per monomeric unit. Sequence probabilities are calculated for Bernoullian, and first‐ and second‐order Markov propagation models. The analyses of two polymers [poly(styrene oxide) and poly(tert‐butyloxirane)] for which tacticity data are available in the literature are given as examples.