Organic chemistry polymerisation I have a doubt regarding the polymerisation of ethene, in the case of polymerisation, we basically are arranging the molecules in a systematic order and thus decreasing its entropy so shouldn't we be providing a low temperature in order to keep the process spontaneous...
Whereas, in reality the conditions for the reaction are high temperature and pressure?
Please help...
Rate of a reaction depends on the temperature conditions. So to make a reaction proceed significantly, we have to take the reactants up to the level of activation energy. One more thing to note here is that low temperature is not a fixed temperature, for example - consider 2 reactions A and B, now if low temperature for reaction A is 400 Kelvin, then it is certainly possible that for reaction B low temperature is say 800 Kelvin.