Photochemical Reactions in Polymeric Materials

Most of the papers in this section are concerned with photo-oxidation reactions, but a few papers refer to photochemical reactions in polymer matrices. Thus the kinetics of the photo-oxidation of anthracene and naphthacene in solid polystyrene (PS),170 the photoionization of aromatic hydrocarbons dissolved in PMMA and PS,171 the photoreactions of naphthalene in cellulose triacetate,172 the cis-trans isomerization of stilbene residues in the side-chains of polymers,173 intrachain photodimerization in polymers,174 photoisomerization of 1,2-diphenyl-cyclopropane by peptides containing naphthalene in a side-chain,176 and photochemical transformations of poly(vinyl p-azidobenzoate)176 have been reported. 

Among reviews published are included the subjects of polymer photochemistry (in Russian),177 the photochemical oxidation of polymers (in Spanish),178 and 

Guillard, M. Leclerc, A. Loflfet, J. Leonis, B. Wilmet, and A. Englert, Macromolecules, 

Shlyapintokh, Zhur. Vsesoyuz Khim. obsch. im D. I. Mendeleeva, 1974,19, 433. 

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