New Methods for Polymer Synthesis

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Group Transfer Polymerization

   • O. W. Webster, B. C. Anderson

   Pages 1-32

3. Anionic Ring-Opening Polymerization

   • Shohei Inoue, Takuzo Aida

   Pages 33-65

4. Cationic Ring-Opening Polymerization

   • Eric J. Goethals, Ronny R. De Clercq

   Pages 67-109

5. Cationic Polymerization of Acyclic Monomers

   • Oskar Nuyken, Stephen D. Pask

   Pages 111-153

6. Free Radical Ring-Opening Polymerization

   • Takeshi Endo, Tsutomu Yokozawa

   Pages 155-177

7. Phase Transfer Catalyzed Polycondensation

   • Sylvie Boileau

   Pages 179-210

8. Activated Polycondensation

   • Fukuji Higashi

   Pages 211-236

9. Polymer Synthesis via Metathesis Chemistry

   • E. A. Ofstead, K. B. Wagener

   Pages 237-271

10. Synthesis of Polymers of Isocyanides

    • Roeland J. M. Nolte, Wiendelt Drenth

    Pages 273-310

11. Back Matter

    Pages 311-317

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The art and science of macromolecular architecture is based on synthesis, analysis, processing, and evaluation of physical properties of polymers. The growing specificity of available synthetic methods and the increasing refinement of analytical and physical analysis are gradually providing a deeper insight into structure-property relationships of polymers, upon which many applications can be based. This book deals with recent methods for polymer synthesis. Those that lead to specific structures have been selected especially. Background, mechanism scope and limitations, and illustrative procedures are given for each method. With this layout the editor hopes that the book will provide a practical guideline, for the synthetic polymer chemist in industry or at a university graduate school, on how to apply the methods in the design of new polymer structures. The editor is grateful to the authors not only for their contributions containing interesting new developments in polymer synthesis, but also for the way they have fitted their text into the general framework of the book. The elegant chemistry described in the following chapters will, it is hoped, inspire more organic chemists to apply their skills to polymer synthesis, where the beauty of organic chemistry in terms of structural control and reactivity may be even more apparent than in the low molecular field.

• polymer
• polymer synthesis
• polymerization
• polymers
• synthesis

• University of Technology, Delft, Delft, The Netherlands

  W. J. Mijs

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