%0 Journal Article
%T Poly(ethylene glycol) or Poly(ethylene oxide)?: Magnitude of end-group Contribution to the Partitioning of Ethylene Oxide Oligomers and Polymers between Water and Organic Phases
%A Spitzer
%A Marcos
%A Sabadini
%A Edvaldo
%A Loh
%A Watson
%J Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society
%D 2002
%I Sociedade Brasileira de Qu¨Şmica, SBQ
%R 10.1590/S0103-50532002000100002
%X peo partitioning from water to ch2cl2 and chcl3 increases with its molar mass, leveling off at ca. 3 000 g mol-1. such a behaviour is related to peo end-group contributions, suggesting a polyglycol to polyether transition at ca. 3 000 g mol-1.
%K poly(ethylene glycol)
%K poly(ethylene oxide)
%K polymer partitioning
%K polymer fractionation
%K biphasic systems
%K end-group contribution.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0103-50532002000100002&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en