Active Sites of Polymerization: Multiplicity: Stereospecific and Kinetic Heterogeneity Book

For specialists in the field of the synthesis, mathematical modeling, and physical chemistry of high-molecular compounds, three Russian scientists, perhaps from the Russian Academy of Sciences, present data on active sites and their kinetic and stereo-specific heterogeneity or multiplicity in ionic, ionic-coordinate, and complex radical polymerization processes of olefin and diene monomers. They discuss such topics as why such multiplicity occurs; experimental results confirming heterogeneities; why there are different types of active sites in the ionic-coordinate polymerization of olefins and dienes; the structure of active sites in the ionic-coordinate polymerization of dienes on lanthanide, titanium, and vanadiam catalytic systems; and the possibility of polymerization free-radical and complex-bound sites of the chain propagation. The English is not always easily comprehensible. No index is provided. VSP is a subsidiary of Brill. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR