Abstract
Safety requirements are becoming more and more important in terms of polymers interaction with fire, while various flame retardant additives are being expelled for their adverse effects on the environment. This is the reason for the research challenge for new effective and environmentally friendly flame retardant systems. In this view, the objectives of the present study were the synthesis of the 2,4,6-triiodophenyl acrylate (TIPA) monomer and of p(MMA-co-TIPA) copolymer; and the determination of the reactivity ratios of the comonomers. As foreseen, MMA reactivity is obviously superior to TIPA (r1 = 5.49 and r2 = 0.053), and a decrease of initial copolymerisation rate is noticed as the feed enriches in MMA. Keywords: reactivity ratio, 2,4,6-triiodophenyl acrylate, homopropagation