Objective and Outline of this Thesis

Having provided a firm foundation for the understanding of termination reactions, Chapter 3 will outline two novel kinetic methods for studying the chain-length dependence of this reaction. A sound guiding principle put forward by the lUPAC working party on Modeling of kinetics and processes ofpolymerization, namely that rate parameters should be deduced from data in a maimer that invokes minimum model-based assumptions [26, 27] is 

Last but not least, it should be noted that the chapters 2 to 4 are meant as stand-alone texts and therefore the reader may encounter identical equations and references in different chapters. It is hoped that this will facilitate the reading and prevent unnecessary and time-consuming browsing through this thesis. 

Genkin, V.V. Sokolov, Dokl. Akad. NaukSSSR, 234, 94 (1977) translation in Doklay Physical Chemistry, 234, 451 (1977) 

Beuermann, M. Buback, in ControlledRadical Polymerization , Ed. K. Matyjaszewski, ACS Symposium Series 685, Am. Chem. Soc., Washington, 1998, Chapter 6 M. Buback, H. Hippier, J. Schweer, H.-P. Vdgele, Makromol. Chem. Rapid Commun., 7, 261 (1986) 

Buback, B. Huckestein, U. Leinhos, Makromol. Chem., Rapid Commun., 8, 473 (1987) 

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