Recent Advances in Anionic Polymerization, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1987 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.

Over the years the field of anionic polymerization has attracted numerous outstanding scientists, and today it still is being pursued by many researchers all over the world. The exciting discovery of termination-less polymerization processes and living polymers culminating in the development of narrow molecular weight polymers, star polymers, and tailor-made block and graft copolymers, contributed immensely to the rapid expansion of polymer science. Areas of active research in anionic polymerization presently include the structure of ion pairs and their role in regulating polymer structure, ring opening polymerization of heterocyclic monomers, synthesis of well-defined block and graft copolymers including the application of macromers in such systems, telechelic polymers with functional end groups, and other topics. New developments in the organic chemistry of carbanions such as dipolar carbanions impinge on the field of anionic polymerization. More sophisticated characterization techniques have been instrumental in obtaining better correlations between the structure of polymers and that of intermediates leading to their formation. This book contains the proceedings of the international symposium on "Recent Advances in Anionic Polymerization and Related Processes" which was held at the 1986 spring meeting of the American Chemical Society. It was the first Polymer Division-sponsored meeting exclusively devoted to anionic polymerization since the Houston ACS meeting in the spring of 1980. The proceedings of that meeting were published in the book "Anionic Polymerization", ACS Symposium Series No. 166, edited by Dr. J. E. McGrath.

Carbanions.- 1. Cation Effects in Organoalkali Metal Chemistry.- 2. Structure and Dynamic Behavior of Organolithium Compounds.- 3. Spectroscopic Studies of Some Cryptated Lithium Carbanions and Related Species.- 4. New Aspects of Carbanion Chemistry. Structure of Pentadienyl Anions and Butenediyl Dianions and Their Roles in Organic and Inorganic Syntheses.- 5. Ion Pair Structure and Photochemistry of Partially Metallated Poly(2-Vinylfluorene) in Solution.- Mechanisms.- 6. Clarification of Some Problems of Anionic Polymerization.- 7. The Effect of Molecular Weight on Association in Anionic Polymerization.- 8. Anionic Polymerization of 4’ -Vinylbenzocrown Ethers.- 9. Kinetics and Thermodynamics of Anionic Polymerization of 2-Isopropenylpyridine in Toluene.- 10. Mechanistic Aspects of the Reversibility and Irreversibility of the Anionic Polymerization of ?-Methylstyrene.- 11. Donor-Acceptor Interactions of the Active Centres of Chain Propagation in the Anionic Polymerization of Acrylonitrile and Methacrylonitrile and Some Other Polar Vinyl Monomers.- 12. Pyridine-Mediated Anionic Homo-and Copolymerization of Alkylmethacrylate.- Stereochemistry.- 13. Stereospecificity in Anionic Polymerization.- 14. Mechanism of Polymerization of MMA by Grignard Reagents and Preparation of Highly Isotactic PMMA with Narrow Molecular Weight Distribution.- 15. Kinetics and Mechanisms in the Anionic Polymerization of Methacrylic Esters.- 16. Stereoelective Anionic Polymerization of Chiral Vinyl Monomers via Interconverting Ion Pair Epimers.- 17. Polymerization of Methylmethacrylate Initiated by Complexed Alkali Alkoxides in the Homogeneous Phase and Related Tacticities.- 18. Role of E- and Z-Carbanions in the Stereochemistry of Anionic Vinyl Polymerization.- Ring-Opening Polymerization.- 19. Progress in Anionic Ring-Opening Polymerization.- 20. Chiral Anionic Coordinated Polymerization of Thiiranes: Enantiomeric Resolution and Disulfide Linkage Formation.- 21. Some Mechanistic Aspects of the Anionic Block Copolymerization of Caprolactam and Polyether Diols.- 22. Anionic Polymerization of Siloxanes. Non-Trivial Model System for Studies of Common Phenomena.- Synthesis.- 23. Synthesis and Applications of Macromonomers.- 24. Investigations of Hydrocarbon Soluble Difunctional Organolithium Initiators Based Upon 1,3-Bis(Phenyl Ethenyl) Benzene.- 25. Synthesis of Poly(Methyl Methacrylate) Macromonomer by Group Transfer Polymerization and Polymerization of the Macromonomer.- 26. Living Coupling Agents. Rational Synthesis of Heteroarm Star-Branched Polymers.- 27. Synthesis and Solution Properties of Macrocyclic Polymers.- 28. Anionic Polymerizations of 2-Isopropenylnaphthalene.- 29. Anionic Polymerization of ?-(Trifluoromethyl) Acrylate.- 30. Synthesis and Characterization of Polysulphide Polymers.- 31. Synthesis of Cellulose-g-Polystyrene by Anionic Polymerization.- 32. Ion-Containing Styrene-Methoxypolyethyleneglycol Methacrylate ABA Triblock Copolymers.- Author Index.