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Will you prefer to polymerize acrylo-nitrile under anionic or cationic polymerization conditions? Explain your choice.

Answer

We will prefer to polymerise acrylonitrile (CH2 = CHCN) under anionic polymerization conditions.
In this case, the active centre of the propagating species is negatively charged. Hence, it occurs easily with monomers containing electron-withdrawing groups such as nitrile.

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