Abstract:A hydrophobically associating anionic terpolymer PAnBS was prepared by free-radical micelle copolymerization of acrylamide,sodium 4-vinylbenzenesulfonate(SSS) and n-butyl styrene(nBS).The structure of the synthesized polymer was characterized by means of UV, FT-IR, 1H-NMR.The influence of polymerization reaction conditions on the apparent viscosity of the polymerization product aqueous solution was studied.The optimum reaction conditions were determined as follow:mole percentage of nBS,SSS and initiator were 1.5%,9% and 0.1% relative to total monomers,mass percentage of total monomers and surfactan(SDS)were 25% and 6%;the reaction temperature and reaction time were 50℃ and 10h respectively. The increasing viscosity ability of PAnBS prepared under the above reaction conditions in sodium chloride or calcium chloride aqueous solution is stronger than that of partially hydrolyzed polyacrylamide with molecular weight of 1.97 ?107and hydrolysis degree of 19.43%. The viscosity of polymer aqueous solution declined slightly with the increase of temperature ,which indicated that the synthesized copolymer had good performance of salt and temperature resistance.