Controlled and Living Polymerizations: From Mechanisms to Applications

Wiley-VCH has published the eagerly awaited overview of the current status of controlled/living polymerization. Controlled and Living Polymerizations: From Mechanisms to Applications delivers cutting edge knowledge from a highly prestigious team of authors.

Polymers consist of many building blocks which produce chains, flexible or rigid networks, or bundles. Depending on the lengths of the chains, the building blocks and the interconnections, the properties and resulting applications of the polymeric material produced vary enormously. Controlled/living polymerization is a synthesis tool for the preparation of tailor-made properties of polymeric materials, which is highly important for the polymer industry.

Controlled and Living Polymerizations: From Mechanisms to Applications explores this fast-moving area of polymer research, presenting an invaluable overview. Designing the properties of polymers and materials is essential for industry. This synthetic method presents a straightforward, time-efficient solution, highly effective for industrial applications.

Authored and edited by the top scientists in the field, this text contains the latest knowledge. The authors focus on synthetic and mechanistic aspects as well as on materials which these methods produce, and their resulting applications.

Controlled and Living Polymerizations: From Mechanisms to Applications is highly important for polymer chemists, organic chemists, plastics technologists, materials scientists, chemical engineers, in both academe and industry.

CONTENTS

Anionic Vinyl Polymerization
Carbocationic Polymerization
Radical Polymerization
Living Transition Metal-Catalyzed Alkene Püolymerization: Polyolefin Synthesis and New Polymer Architectures
Living Ring-Opening Polymerization of Heterocyclic Monomers
Living Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization
Macromolecular Architectures by Living and Controlled/Living Polymerizations
Synthesis of Block and Graft Copolymers
Morphologies in Block Copolymers
Industrial Applications