Introduction to polymer nomenclature

Introduction to Polymer Nomenclature Purple Book I, Introduction (1987) and new materials and updates based on lUPAC reports and recommendations more recently published. 

CONTENTS Introduction to the Series An Editor s Foreword, Albert Padwa, Emory University. Preface, George R. Newkome, University of South Florida. A Review of Dendritic Macromolecules, George R. Newkome and Charles N. Moorefield, University of South Florida. Stiff Dendritic Macromolecules Based on Phenylacetylenes, Zhifu Xu, Benjamin Kyan, and Jeffery S. Moore, The University of Michigan. Preparation and Properties of Monodisperse Aromatic Dendritic Macromolecules, Thomas X. Neenan, Timothy M. Miller, Elizabeth W. Kwock, and Harvey E. Bair, AT T Bell Laboratories. High-Spin Polyarylmethyl Polyradicals, Andrzej Rajca, University of Nebraska. A Systematic Nomenclature for Cascade (Dendritic) Polymers, Gregory R. Baker and James K. Young, University of South Florida. Index. 

Many important advances have been made in the nomenclature of polymer blends, grafts, blocks and IPN s. These include a nomenclature document recently published by the lUPAC Nomenclature Committee and one now under consideration. Briefly, two advances were made that relate to IPN s. The first was the use of the prefix cross- to indicate a crosslinked polymer. Thus, cross-poly-butadiene is distinguished from the linear product, written polybutadiene. The second advance was the introduction of the symbol -inter-, which means interpenetrating. Thus, cross-poly-(ethyl acrylate)-mtcr-cross-polystyrene (1) represents the IPN based on poly(ethyl acrylate) and polystyrene. The symbol -inter- has exactly the equivalent meaning as -block- and -graft- possess for block and graft copolymers, respectively. 

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