Multimechanism polymerization is an important extension of traditional single mechanism polymerization reactions, which can design and synthesize various polymers with complex topological structures and chain sequences, as well as functional polymer materials. It is very challenging to accurately and comprehensively describe the impact of multiple reaction mechanisms. Our research group has recently shown that the influence between polymerization mechanisms can be described by the evaluation of reaction kinetics and thermodynamics. By comparing the kinetic and thermodynamic behavior of each mechanism in a multicomponent polymerization system, the effects between the participating mechanisms are quantitatively calculated using the proposed kinetic models. On this basis, we constructed a mathematical model for the kinetics of multicomponent polymerization reactions, which can estimate and calculate the strength of mutual interactions between mechanisms through hybrid functions (hybrid parameters), thereby quantitatively studying the complex interactions of multicomponent polymerization reactions.
