Termination in radical copolymerization: Correlation of experimental data

Various termination models in the radical copolymerization are compared on the basis of available experimental data for the dependence of the initial rate of copolymerization on the composition of the monomer mixture. A diffusion‐controlled model seems to be more adequate for the majority of reported data than a chemically controlled one. The potential effect of activity coefficients in calculations of the initial rate of copolymerization is discussed.