Polymer Chemistry is an introductory textbook intended for graduate and advanced undergraduate students
and industrial chemists who work with polymers. The author's purpose in writing the book was to provide a comprehensive
and up-to-date overview of the chemistry of macromolecular substances, with particular emphasis on polymers that
are important commercially, and the properties that make them important. Major topics include polymer synthesis
nomenclature, molecular weight, reactions of polymers, recycling of polymers, methods used for characterizing and
testing polymers, morphology, stereoregular polymers, polymer blends, heterocyclic polymers, inorganic polymers,
and natural polymers. Review exercises, frequently including journal references, are provided to lead students
into the polymer literature.
The only current polymer textbook that discusses polymer types according to functional group.
The most up-to-date treatment of important new developments, including living free radical polymerization, metallocene
initiators for polyofins, new polymer architectures such as dendritic and hyperbranched polymers, atomic force
microscopy, and mass spectrometric methods for determining molecular weights of polymers.
Table of Contents
Preface
PART I. POLYMER STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES
1. Basic principles
2. Molecular weight and polymer solutions
3. Chemical structure and polymer morphology
4. Chemical structure and polymer properties
5. Evaluation, characterization, and analysis of polumers
PART II. VINYL POLYMERS
6. Free radical polymerization
7. Ionic polymerization
8. Vinyl polumerization with complex coordination catalysts
9. Reactions of vinyl polymers
PART III. NONVINYL POLYMERS
10. Step-reaction and ring-opening polymerization
11. Polyethers, polysulfides, and related polymers
12. Polyesters
13. Polyamides and related polymers
14. Phenol-, urea-, and melamine-formaldehyde polymers
15. Heterocyclic polymers
16. Inorganic and partially inorganic polymers
17. Miscellaneous organic polymers
18. Natural polymers
Appendix A. Commonly used polymer abbreviations
Appendix B. Polymer literature
Appendix C. Sources of laboratory experiments in polymer chemistry
