Organometallic-mediated radical polymerization

The fifty chapters submitted for publication in the ACS Symposium series could not fit into one volume and therefore we decided to split them into two volumes. In order to balance the size of each volume we did not divide the chapters into volumes related to mechanisms and materials but rather to those related to atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) and to other controlled/living radical polymerization methods reversible-addition fragmentation transfer (RAFT) and other degenerative transfer techniques, as well as stable free radical pol5mierizations (SFRP) including nitroxide mediated polymerization (NMP) and organometallic mediated radical polymerization (OMRP). 

Allan LEN, Perry MR, Shaver MP. Organometallic mediated radical polymerization. Prog Polym Sci 2012 37 127-156. 

Organometallic-mediated radical polymerization (OMRP) is based on the fast and reversible homolytic cleavage (Scheme 4.22) of a metal arbon bond (metal Co, Rh, Mo, Os, Fe, Pd, Ni, Ti, Cr, V, Te, Bi, Sb). In some cases it can also proceed via degenerative transfer which does not exhibit a persistent radical effect. OMRP has been recently comprehensively reviewed by Shaver et Wayland et reported in 1992 the first example of OMRP based on... 

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