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Advances in Polymer Science enjoys a longstanding tradition and
good reputation in its community. Each volume is dedicated to a
current topic, and each review critically surveys one aspect of
that topic, to place it within the context of the volume. The
volumes typically summarize the significant developments of the
last 5 to 10 years and discuss them critically, presenting selected
examples, explaining and illustrating the important principles, and
bringing together many important references of primary literature.
On that basis, future research directions in the area can be
discussed. Advances in Polymer Science volumes thus are important
references for every polymer scientist, as well as for other
scientists interested in polymer science - as an introduction to a
neighboring field, or as a compilation of detailed information for
the specialist.
Advances in Polymer Science enjoys a longstanding tradition and
good reputation in its community. Each volume is dedicated to a
current topic, and each review critically surveys one aspect of
that topic, to place it within the context of the volume. The
volumes typically summarize the significant developments of the
last 5 to 10 years and discuss them critically, presenting selected
examples, explaining and illustrating the important principles, and
bringing together many important references of primary literature.
On that basis, future research directions in the area can be
discussed. Advances in Polymer Science volumes thus are important
references for every polymer scientist, as well as for other
scientists interested in polymer science - as an introduction to a
neighboring field, or as a compilation of detailed information for
the specialist.
Advances in Polymer Science enjoys a longstanding tradition and
good reputation in its community. Each volume is dedicated to a
current topic, and each review critically surveys one aspect of
that topic, to place it within the context of the volume. The
volumes typically summarize the significant developments of the
last 5 to 10 years and discuss them critically, presenting selected
examples, explaining and illustrating the important principles, and
bringing together many important references of primary literature.
On that basis, future research directions in the area can be
discussed. Advances in Polymer Science volumes thus are important
references for every polymer scientist, as well as for other
scientists interested in polymer science - as an introduction to a
neighboring field, or as a compilation of detailed information for
the specialist.
Advances in Polymer Science enjoys a longstanding tradition and
good reputation in its community. Each volume is dedicated to a
current topic, and each review critically surveys one aspect of
that topic, to place it within the context of the volume. The
volumes typically summarize the significant developments of the
last 5 to 10 years and discuss them critically, presenting selected
examples, explaining and illustrating the important principles, and
bringing together many important references of primary literature.
On that basis, future research directions in the area can be
discussed. Advances in Polymer Science volumes thus are important
references for every polymer scientist, as well as for other
scientists interested in polymer science - as an introduction to a
neighboring field, or as a compilation of detailed information for
the specialist.
More than 30 years after the discovery of transition metals and
organometal lics as catalysts for olefin polymerization these
catalysts did not have lost their fascination. Since 1953 when Karl
Ziegler has discovered the catalytic polymerization of ethylene
leading to plastically formable polymers which are mechanically
stable up to temperatures of about 100 DegreesC, synthetic polymers
and rubbers have made their way right into private houses. This
discovery has been a main impetus for the fast growing production
of plastics. The stereoselective poly merization of propylene and
other long-chain a-olefins first detected by Giulio Natta leads to
an even broadened field of applications. Another enforcing factor
were the developments of Standard Oil of Indiana and Phillipps
Petroleum Company who engaged in the polymerization of a-olefins
supported molybdenum, cobalt and later on chromium catalysts which
clearly indicates the wide variety of suitable systems. This kind
of research acknowledged merit when in 1963 the Nobel prize of
chemistry was awarded to Ziegler and Natta. Although to a great
extent there is a technical application for these catalysts, up to
now the nature of the active centres and many reaction mechanisms
are not completely known.
45 years after the discovery of transition metals and
organometallics as cocatalysts for the polymerization of olefins
and for organic synthesis, these compounds have not lost their
fascination. The birthday of Karl Ziegler, the great pioneer in
this metalorganic catalysis, is now 100 years ago. Polyolefins and
polydienes produced by Ziegler-Natta catalysis are the most
important plastics and elastomers. New impulses for the
polymerization of olefins have been brought about by highly active
metallocenes and other single site catalysts. Just by changing the
ligands of the organometallic compounds, the structure of the
polymers produced can be tailored in a wide manner. In invited
lectures and posters, relevant aspects of the metalorganic
catalysts for synthesis and polymerization are discussed in this
book. This includes mechanism and kinetics, stereochemistry,
material properties, and industrial applications.
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