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Various models of coupling of precursor blocks leading to the formation of block and/or graft copolymers are defined. Distribution functions of chemical composition, and in some cases also of molecular weights of various types of copolymers have been derived in an analytical form for a case in which precursor blocks obey the Schulz–Zimm (gamma) molecular weight distribution, and the coupling of blocks has a random character. The effect of polydispersity of precursors, simplifying approximations, and certain other factors on the form of distribution functions of the chemical composition of copolymers is discussed. Assumption of another type of molecular weight distribution of precursors does not give qualitatively different results.
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Stejskal, J., Kratochvíl, P. Distribution of the Chemical Composition of Block and Graft Copolymers Assuming Gamma Distribution of Molecular Weights of the Precursor Blocks. Polym J 14, 603–627 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1295/polymj.14.603
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