Synopsis
This book is for polymer professionals, in particular synthesis-oriented industrial and academic chemists, graduate students, and hi-tech entrepreneurs, interested in the design and making of polymeric materials with well-design structures for specific applications. Carbocationic macromolecular engineering, the main thrust of this treatise, is one of the most powerful techniques toward this object. Particularly with the recent discovery of living cationic polymerizations, carbocationic macromolecular engineering rapdily moved centre stage among the methodologies aiming at the designed assembly of polymers. This book contains the first comprehensive treatment of this subject. The main body of this volume is subdivided into Theory and Practice. The first part concerns a general introduction to carbocationic polymerizations which then smoothly flows into cationic polymerization fundamentals and mechanisms, including the latest views on living carbocationic polymerizations. This part also contains the first comprehensive overview of this rapidly expanding field that revolutionized macromolecular engineering.
The second part is a comprehensive overview of specific products and processes that arose as a result of carbocationic macromolecular engineering. New products and the strategies they were made by are emphasized. The ease, practicality, and economy of the synthetic methods is a constant concern."synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
