Macromolecular Design of Polymeric Materials Book

Rational design of well-defined polymeric materials. Part 1 Control of polymerization toward molecular design of polymers: structural control by living radical polymerization; living cationic polymerization - design of polymerization and macromolecular structure; macromolecular engineering by carbocationic polymers by living anionic polymerization; controlled polymer synthesis with metalloporphyrins; group transfer polymerization for controlled polymer architecture; industrial applications of living polymerization; stereospecific living polymerization of methacrylate and construction of stereoregular polymer architecture; stereochemistry of anionic polymerization of polar vinyl monomers; helical polymers and oligomers with molecular dissymetry; activated monomer polymerization of cyclic monomers; ring-opening polymerization of cyclic sulfides and imines; macromolecular engineering of polylactones and polylactides by ring-opening polymerization; coordination polymerization with high-activity catalyst and soluble coordination catalysts; macrocyclic oligomers as precursors of high polymers; in-site polycondensation for synthesis of high performance polymers; design of reactive polymers and their applications; polymer reactions for the synthesis of functional polymers; synthetic design by modification of natural materials; highly branched polymers - dendrimers and hyperbranched polymers; star polymer synthesis; molecular design of network polymers. Part 2 Molecular design of specialty polymers: acrylic copolymers by radical and anionic mechanisms and their practical applications; fluoropolymers and fluoroelastomers. (Part contents).