Influence of termination and transfer on molecular weight distribution of polymers, 8. Spontaneous transfer

The kinetics of cationic polymerization with instantaneous initiations and spontaneous transfer is treated theoretically. By means of a non‐steady state analysis, rigorous expressions for the molecular weight distribution and other molecular parameters are derived from the set of differential equations without introducing any approximations. The influence of spontaneous transfer on the molecular weight distribution is discussed in detail based on several numerical examples.