Anionic Polymerization Principles, Practice, Strength, Consequences
This book presents these important facts: a) The mechanism of anionic polymerization, a more than 50-year challenge in polymer chemistry, has now become better understood; b) Precise synthesis of many polymers with novel architectures (triblock, multi-blo
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Anionic Polymerization Principles, Practice, Strength, Consequences and Applications
Anionic Polymerization
Nikos Hadjichristidis • Akira Hirao Editors
Anionic Polymerization Principles, Practice, Strength, Consequences and Applications
Editors Nikos Hadjichristidis King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
Akira Hirao Tokyo Institute of Technology Tokyo, Japan
ISBN 978-4-431-54185-1 ISBN 978-4-431-54186-8 DOI 10.1007/978-4-431-54186-8
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Preface
Anionic polymerization, discovered by M. Schwarz in the 1950s and developed to its current level by a number of excellent chemists (M. Morton, S. Bywater, L. Fetters, J. Roovers, P. Rempp, and many others), is a powerful tool for the controlled manipulation of macromolecular architectures. Moreover, it is still unique for the capability to synthesize a huge variety of model polymeric materials with a high degree of molecular, structural, and compositional homogeneity. The uniqueness of anionic polymerization is due to the complete absence of a termination step, which is present with a very few exceptions, to a lower or higher degree in all other controlled/living polymerizations. For these reasons we have prepared this book to describe the principles, practice, strengths, consequences, and applications of this powerful chemistry. A great polymer chemist, who shall remain nameless, said that “what is the past for anionic polymerization is the future of controlled/living polymerizations”, since almost all structures (star, cyclic, comb, pom-pom, etc.) have been synthesized many years ago by anionic polymerization and the appropriate linking chemistry. In addition, polyethylene and polypropylene have also been sy
