Doolittle Arthur

Doolittle, Arthur K. "The Technology of Solvents and Plasticizers" Wiley New York, 1954 1056 pp. 

Mitsuo Sawamoto, born in Kyoto, Japan (1951), received his B.S. (1974), M.S. (1976), and Ph.D. (1979) degrees in polymer chemistry from Kyoto University under the direction of Toshinobu Higashimura. After postdoctoral research with Joseph P. Kennedy at the Institute of Polymer Science, The University of Akron, Akron, OH (1980-81), he joined the faculty of the Department of Polymer Chemistry, Kyoto University, in 1981 as a research instructor. He was promoted to Lecturer (1991), to Associate Professor (1993), and to Professor (1994), his current position, of the same department. Sawamoto also serves as one of the three Editors of the Journal of Polymer Science, Part A Polymer Chemistry (1995-present) and as an Editorial Advisory Board member of Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, the Journal of Macromolecular Science, Chemistry, and e-Polymers, and is the recipient of the 1991 Award of the Society of Polymer Science, Japan, the 1998 Divisional Award of the Chemical Society of Japan, the 2001 Aggarval Lectureship in Polymer Science, Cornell University, and the 2001 Arthur K. Doolittle Award of the ACS PMSE Division. With more than 250 articles and reviews, his research interest covers living radical and cationic polymerizations, precision polymer synthesis, and the chemistry of radical and carbocationic reaction intermediates. 

With >350 original papers and >30 reviews, he has received, among others, the Award of the Society of Polymer Science, Japan (1992), Divisional Research Award of the Chemical Society of Japan (1999), and Arthur K. Doolittle Award of PMSE Division, the American Chemical Society (2002). His research interest includes development of novel precision polymerizations and catalysis (living cationic polymerization with Lewis acid catalysts (1984) and living radical polymerization with transition metal complex catal) (1995)), the synthesis of designed functional polymers, and the nature of polymerization intermediates. 

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