Synthetic methods in step-growth polymers / edited by Martin E. Rogers, Timothy E. Long.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rogers, Martin E.

Long, Timothy E., 1969-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Polycondensation.

Plastics.

Physical Description:

xi, 605 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Interscience, [2003]

Summary:

* Provides a single-source reference of the classical and state-of-the-art synthetic techniques for preparing polymers via step-growth polymerization. * Includes historical background and basic classifications of step-growth polymers.

Contents:

1 Introduction to Synthetic Methods in Step-Growth Polymers / Martin E. Rogers, Timothy E. Long, S. Richard Turner 1

1.2 Structure-Property Relationships in Step-Growth Polymers 3

1.3 Synthesis of Step-Growth Polymers 9

2 Polyesters / Alain Fradet, Martine Tessier 17

2.2 Structure-Property Relationships 32

2.3 Synthetic Methods 60

2.4 Polyester Syntheses 95

3 Polyamides / Reinoud J. Gaymans 135

3.2 Structure-Property Relationships 138

3.3 Overview of Chemistry and Analytical Techniques 149

3.4 Synthetic Methods 164

4 Polyurethanes and Polyureas / Jeff Dodge 197

4.2 Structure-Property Relationships 208

4.3 Synthesis and Material Characterization 222

4.4 Synthetic Methods 246

5 Polyimides and Other High-Temperature Polymers / B. Sillion, R. Mercier, D. Picq 265

5.2 Structure-Property Relationships 273

5.3 Overview of Chemistry and Analytical Techniques 287

5.4 Synthetic Methods 300

6 Synthesis of Poly(arylene ether)s / Sheng Wang, J. E. McGrath 327

6.2 General Approaches for the Synthesis of Poly(arylene ether)s 329

6.3 Control of Molecular Weight and/or Endgroups 347

6.4 Control of Topologies 348

6.5 Modification of Poly(arylene ether)s 351

6.6 Block and Graft Copolymers 359

6.7 Miscellaneous Poly(arylene ether)s, Poly(arylene thioether)s, and Related Polymers 361

7 Chemistry and Properties of Phenolic Resins and Networks / S. Lin-Gibson, J. S. Riffle 375

7.2 Materials for the Synthesis of Novolac and Resole Phenolic Oligomers 376

7.3 Novolac Resins 378

7.4 Resole Resins and Networks 398

7.5 Epoxy-Phenolic Networks 411

7.6 Benzoxazines 416

7.7 Phenolic Cyanate Resins 418

7.8 Thermal and Thermo-Oxidative Degradation 418

8 Nontraditional Step-Growth Polymerization: ADMET / A. Cameron Church, Jason A. Smith, James H. Pawlow, Kenneth B. Wagener 431

8.2 Overview of Chemistry and Analytical Techniques 435

8.3 Structure-Property Relationships 445

8.4 Synthetic Methods: Silicon-Containing Polymers, Functionalized Polyolefins, and Telechelics 450

9 Nontraditional Step-Growth Polymerization: Transition Metal Coupling / Qiao-Sheng Hu 467

9.2 Structure-Property Relationships 477

9.3 Overview of Chemistry and Analytic Techniques 483

9.4 Synthetic Methods 491

10 Depolymerization and Recycling / Malcolm B. Polk 527

10.2 Structure-Property Relationships 532

10.3 Factors Affecting the use of Recycled Monomers or Oligomers 537

10.4 Chemistry and Catalysis 543

10.5 Experimental Methods 544

10.6 Synthetic Methods 556.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

047138769X

OCLC:

50447744