Asian Journal of Research in Chemistry

  • Year: 2016
  • Volume: 9
  • Issue: 1

Cathodic Aqueous Polymerization of Acrylamide with ZnCl2

1Department of Chemistry, Ranchi Women's College, Ranchi

2P. G., Department of Chemistry, Ranchi University, Ranchi

*Corresponding Author E-mail: rbhadani04@gmail.com

Online published on 9 March, 2016.

Abstract

The electroinitiated polymerization has been described here. The polymerization mixture consisted of monomer dissolved in an aqueous solution of ZnCl2, and was subjected to electrolysis in a divided cell. The rates of polymerization increased linearly with increase in applied current level and monomer concentration. Polymers of high molecular weights (≍105) were obtained from intrinsic viscosity measurements that increased with monomer concentration. The cyclic voltammogram of acrylamide in H2O -ZnCl2 solution suggests that the monomer gets directly reduced at cathode and the polymerization mechanism is anoinic.

Keywords

Polymerization, electrochemical process, acrylamide, zinc chlorides and cyclic voltammetry