History of Polyolefins - The World's Most Widely Used Polymers (Hardcover, 1986 ed.)

The word Polyethylene was probably first pronounced in a lecture which M. P. E. Berthelot delivered on April ,27, 1863 to the Chemical Society in Paris, reporting on the "polymerization" of various simple organic compounds (1). Much later this work appeared twice in the literature before the classical ICI breakthrough in the 1930's which is so colorfully described in Ballard's lecture. Once it came up at the end of the last century when H. von Pechmann obtained "a white flocculant material" from the decomposition of diazomethane which, one year later, was termed to be "polymethylene" - (CH ) - from E. Bamberger 2 and F. Tschiemer (1). At that time the investigators were disappointed about this product because it was not what they had expected to find in their experiments. As a result any further work was discontinued. The second time that the word polyethylene appeared in the literature to describe a "white solid powder" was in 1930 when C. S. Marvel and M. E. P. Friedericks (2) attempted to prepare alkylated As compounds in which all five valencies were covalently bonded to five monovalent-aTkyl groups. They reacted Tetra-ethyl-arsenium bromide with butyllithium and expected to get tetra ethyl butyl arsenium. Instead they obtained LiBr + AsEt3 + gaseous products. Delicate and somewhat time-consuming analysis gave a surprising result: ethane and C 's were there in the 4 expected quantities but ethylene was missing - or almost missing - in the gas mixture.

General

Imprint:	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Chemists and Chemistry, 7
Release date:	November 1985
First published:	1986
Editors:	F.B. Seymour • Tai Cheng
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	336
Edition:	1986 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-90-277-2128-0
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Chemistry > General Promotions
LSN:	90-277-2128-9
Barcode:	9789027721280

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