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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Mar 23.
Published in final edited form as: Polymer (Guildf). 2007 Mar 23;48(7):2014–2021. doi: 10.1016/j.polymer.2007.02.006

Table 2.

Dark conversion data for various acrylate monomers is presented.

Monomer Conversion at which the UV light was extinguished (%) Dark Polymerization (% conversion after the UV light was extinguished) Rp at the conversion where the light was extinguished (s−1)
Hexyl Acrylate 35 ± 1 3 ± 1 0.007 ± 0.002
Tetrahydrofurfuryl Acrylate 35 ± 1 7 ± 2 0.02 ± 0.03
Hexanediol Diacrylate 10 ± 2 7 ± 2 0.05 ± 0.02
Hexanediol Diacrylate 40 ± 3 15 ± 3 0.08 ± 0.02
Cyclic Carbonate Acrylate 35 ± 5 35 ± 3 0.16 ± 0.02
Phenyl Carbamate Ethyl Acrylate 36 ± 8 40 ± 3 0.38 ± 0.03
Ethyl Linear Carbonate Ethyl Acrylate 34 ± 3 25 ±3 0.09 ± 0.02

Polymerization conditions: light intensity = 5 mW/cm2, initiator concentration = 0.1 wt% DMPA, room temperature.