STUDY ON METHANOLYSIS STABILITY OF OPTICALLY ACTIVE COPOLYMERS OF TRIPHENYLMETHYL METHACRYLATE AND METHYL METHACRYLATE

The methanolysis of poly(triphenylmethyl methacrylate) (PTrMA) and its copoly-mers P(TrMA-co-MMA), P(TrMA-b-MMA) has been studied in the presence of anhydrousmethanol at 40℃ by electroconductometric method. It has been found that the methanoly-sis stability can be obviously improved for the copolymer, especially, the radom copolymer,P(TrMA-co-MMA).