Solubility of Monomers for Chain Polymerization in Ionic Liquids Predicted by the Conductor-Like Screening Model for Real Solvents

Ionic liquids have been extensively investigated as clean solvents for chain polymerization reactions, such as radical polymerization, anionic polymerization, and cationic polymerization. However, the low solubility of the monomers in ionic liquids often plagues the efficiency of these reactions. In this study, solubility of two typical vinyl monomers of p-methylstyrene (p-MeSt) and isobutyl vinyl ether (IBVE) were studied in 1750 possible ionic...