Recent Advances in Anionic Polymerization: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Recent Advances in Anionic Polymerization, held April 13–18, 1986 at the American Chemical Society Meeting in New York, New York, U.S.A.

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Cation Effects in Organoalkali Metal Chemistry....Pages 3-21
Structure and Dynamic Behavior of Organolithium Compounds....Pages 23-47
Spectroscopic Studies of some Cryptated Lithium Carbanions and Related Species....Pages 49-57
New Aspects of Carbanion Chemistry. Structure of Pentadienyl Anions and Butenediyl Dianions and their Roles in Organic and Inorganic Syntheses....Pages 59-71
Ion Pair Structure and Photochemistry of Partially Metallated Poly(2-Vinylfluorene) in Solution....Pages 73-89
Front Matter....Pages 91-91
Clarification of some Problems of Anionic Polymerization....Pages 93-107
The Effect of Molecular Weight on Association in Anionic Polymerization....Pages 109-119
Anionic Polymerization of 4′-Vinylbenzocrown Ethers....Pages 121-135
Kinetics and Thermodynamics of Anionic Polymerization of 2-Isopropenyl Pyridine in Toluene....Pages 137-146
Mechanistic Aspects of the Reversibility and Irreversibility of the Anionic Polymerization of α-Methylstyrene....Pages 147-153
Donor-Acceptor Interactions of the Active Centres of Chain Propagation in the Anionic Polymerization of Acrylonitrile and Methacrylonitrile and Some Other Polar Vinyl Monomers....Pages 155-171
Pyridine-Mediated Anionic Homo-and Copolymerization of Alkylmethacrylate....Pages 173-184
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
Stereospecificity in Anionic Polymerization....Pages 187-194
Mechanism of Polymerization of MMA by Grignard Reagents and Preparation of Highly Isotactic PMMA with Narrow Molecular Weight Distribution....Pages 195-204
Kinetics and Mechanisms in the Anionic Polymerization of Methacrylic Esters....Pages 205-229
Stereoelective Anionic Polymerization of Chiral Vinyl Monomers Via Interconverting Ion Pair Epimers....Pages 231-247
Polymerization of Methylmethacrylate Initiated by Complexed Alkali Alkoxides in the Homogeneous Phase and Related Tacticities....Pages 249-260
Role of E-and Z-Carbanions in the Stereochemistry of Anionic Vinyl Polymerization....Pages 261-272
Front Matter....Pages 273-273
Progress in Anionic Ring-Opening Polymerization....Pages 275-295
Chiral Anionic Coordinated Polymerization of Thiiranes : Enantiomeric Resolution and Disulfide Linkage Formation....Pages 297-311
Front Matter....Pages 273-273
Some Mechanistic Aspects of the Anionic Block Copolymerization of Caprolactam and Polyether Diols....Pages 313-328
Anionic Polymerization of Siloxanes Non-Trivial Model System for Studies of Common Phenomena....Pages 329-349
Front Matter....Pages 351-351
Synthesis and Applications of Macromonomers....Pages 353-361
Investigations of Hydrocarbon Soluble Difunctional Organolithium Initiators Based upon 1,3-Bis(Phenyl Ethenyl) Benzene....Pages 363-380
Synthesis of Poly(Methyl Methacrylate) Macromonomer by Group Transfer Polymerization, and Polymerization of the Macromonomer....Pages 381-392
Living Coupling Agents. Rational Synthesis of Heteroarm Star-Branched Polymers....Pages 393-401
Synthesis and Solution Properties of Macrocyclic Polymers....Pages 403-410
Anionic Polymerizations of 2-Isopropenylnaphthalene....Pages 411-420
Anionic Polymerization of α-(Trifluoromethyl)Acrylate....Pages 421-430
Synthesis and Characterization of Polysulphide Polymers....Pages 431-439
Synthesis of Cellulose-g-Polystyrene by Anionic Polymerization....Pages 441-450
Ion-Containing Styrene-Methoxypolyethyleneglycol Methacrylate ABA Triblock Copolymers....Pages 451-458
Back Matter....Pages 459-468