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5687496 
Journal Article 
Relative reactivities in the copolymerization of p-isopropenylphenylacetate and butadiene 
Kogan, LM; Yezriyelev, AI; Peizner, AB; Lebedev, AV 
1968 
Polymer Science USSR
ISSN: 0032-3950 
10 
9 
2359-2366 
The aim of the present work was to clarify the effect of the structural features of p-isopropenylphenylacetate (IPPhA) on its reactivity in copolymerization with butadiene (BD). There is a reference in the patent literature to a method of obtaining IPPhA from p-isopropenylphenol (IPPh) by the Schotten-Baumann reaction [1]; however no physical constants and no evidence of the structure of the compound obtained were given, and the reactivity of the product, including its reactivity in radical reactions, was not studied at all. It seemed very important to us to fill the last-named gap, since IPPhA is a structural analogue of α-methylstyrene and, as one should expect, also has a fairly reactive ester group, whose presence in the polymer would make it possible carry out a number of interesting polymer-analogue transformations.