Cationic Polymerization

Cationic Polymerization covers the essential practices and latest procedures for working with carbocationic and ring opening polymerization. It presents the kinetic rates of individual steps of cationic polymerization using laser flash photolysis and competitive experimental techniques. It examines several new catalyst systems including a water-resistant, recoverable Lewis acid for ring polymerization. It also highlights the use of living carbocationic techniques to prepare amphiphilic block copolymers, multiarm star polymers, and coupled copolymers of isobutylene, and it compares the similarities and differences of "living" radical and carbocationic techniques. Essential for chemists working with cationic polymerization, the volume is also useful for researchers new to the field.