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Positive-Tone Photoresists based on Dissolution Inhibition by Diazonaphthoquinones. The intrinsic limitations of bis-azide—cycHzed mbber resist systems led the semiconductor industry to shift to a class of imaging materials based on diazonaphthoquinone (DNQ) photosensitizers. Both the chemistry and the imaging mechanism of these resists (Fig. 10) differ in fundamental ways from those described thus far (23). The DNQ acts as a dissolution inhibitor for the matrix resin, a low molecular weight condensation product of formaldehyde and cresol isomers known as novolac (24). The phenoHc stmcture renders the novolac polymer weakly acidic, and readily soluble in aqueous alkaline solutions. In admixture with an appropriate DNQ the polymer s dissolution rate is sharply decreased. Photolysis causes the DNQ to undergo a multistep reaction sequence, ultimately forming a base-soluble carboxyHc acid which does not inhibit film dissolution. Immersion of a pattemwise-exposed film of the resist in an aqueous solution of hydroxide ion leads to rapid dissolution of the exposed areas and only very slow dissolution of unexposed regions. In contrast with crosslinking resists, the film solubiHty is controUed by chemical and polarity differences rather than molecular size. 

Acid-C t lyzed Chemistry. Acid-catalyzed reactions form the basis for essentially all chemically amplified resist systems for microlithography appHcations (61). These reactions can be generally classified as either cross-linking (photopolymerization) or deprotection reactions. The latter are used to unmask acidic functionality such as phenohc or pendent carboxyhc acid groups, and thus lend themselves to positive tone resist apphcations. Acid-catalyzed polymer cross-linking and photopolymerization reactions, on the other hand, find appHcation in negative tone resist systems. Representative examples of each type of chemistry are Hsted below. 

Polylactides, 18 Poly lactones, 18, 43 Poly(L-lactic acid) (PLLA), 22, 41, 42 preparation of, 99-100 Polymer age, 1 Polymer architecture, 6-9 Polymer chains, nonmesogenic units in, 52 Polymer Chemistry (Stevens), 5 Polymeric chiral catalysts, 473-474 Polymeric materials, history of, 1-2 Polymeric MDI (PMDI), 201, 210, 238 Polymerizations. See also Copolymerization Depolymerization Polyesterification Polymers Prepolymerization Repolymerization Ring-opening polymerization Solid-state polymerization Solution polymerization Solvent-free polymerization Step-grown polymerization processes Vapor-phase deposition polymerization acid chloride, 155-157 ADMET, 4, 10, 431-461 anionic, 149, 174, 177-178 batch, 167 bulk, 166, 331 chain-growth, 4 continuous, 167, 548 coupling, 467 Friedel-Crafts, 332-334 Hoechst, 548 hydrolytic, 150-153 influence of water content on, 151-152, 154... 

Yokoyama, T. Hiraoko, K. (1979). Hydration and thermal transition of poly(acrylic acid) salts. Polymer Preprints of the American Chemical Society, Division of Polymer Chemistry, 20, 511-13. 

This paper was presented at the Symposium on Polymer Chemistry as Applied to Plastics on the 22nd of September 1950. In it the author recognises the possible types of reaction by which a co-catalyst may initiate polymerisation in a mixture of an alkene and a metal halide. It is stated, probably not for the first time, that the hydrogen halides, HX, do not form protonic acids with metal halides, but nonetheless these ghosts kept on spooking around the literature for decades, and they have still not been exorcised completely. 

Numerous reports published in recent years have focused on carbon-centered radicals derived from compounds with selected substitution patterns such as alkanes [40,43,47], halogenated alkanes [43,48,49,51-57], alkenes [19], benzene derivatives [43,47], ethers [51,58], aldehydes [48], amines [10,59], amino acids [23,60-67] etc. Particularly significant advances have been made in the theoretical treatment of radicals occurring in polymer chemistry and biological chemistry. The stabilization of radicals in all of these compounds is due to the interaction of the molecular orbital carrying the unpaired electron with energetically and spatially adjacent molecular orbitals, and four typical scenarios appear to cover all known cases [20]. 

Nearly all synthetic polymers are synthesized by the polymerization or copolymerization of different "monomers." The chain growth process may involve the addition chain reactions of unsaturated small molecules, condensation reactions, or ringopening chain-coupling processes. In conventional polymer chemistry, the synthesis of a new polymer requires the use of a new monomer. This approach is often unsatisfactory for Inorganic systems, where relatively few monomers or cyclic oligomers can be Induced to polymerize, at least under conditions that have been studied to date. The main exception to this rule is the condensation-type growth that occurs with inorganic dl-hydroxy acids. 

In this section, enzymes in the EC 2.4. class are presented that catalyze valuable and interesting reactions in the field of polymer chemistry. The Enzyme Commission (EC) classification scheme organizes enzymes according to their biochemical function in living systems. Enzymes can, however, also catalyze the reverse reaction, which is very often used in biocatalytic synthesis. Therefore, newer classification systems were developed based on the three-dimensional structure and function of the enzyme, the property of the enzyme, the biotransformation the enzyme catalyzes etc. [88-93]. The Carbohydrate-Active enZYmes Database (CAZy), which is currently the best database/classification system for carbohydrate-active enzymes uses an amino-acid-sequence-based classification and would classify some of the enzymes presented in the following as hydrolases rather than transferases (e.g. branching enzyme, sucrases, and amylomaltase) [91]. Nevertheless, we present these enzymes here because they are transferases according to the EC classification. 

Tartaric acid-glycerol polyesters were reported in 1847 by Berzelius [13] and those of ethylene glycol and succinic acid were reported by Lorenzo in 1863 [14]. Carothers and Van Natta [15] extended much of the earlier work and helped clarify the understanding of the polyesterification reaction in light of the knowledge of polymer chemistry at their time. Polyethylene terephthalate [16, 17] and the polyadipates [18] (for polyurethane resins) were the first major commercial application of polyesters. 

The inter-relationship between colloid and polymer chemistries is completed by colloidal polymer particles. The formation of 50-nm-diameter, 100- to 200-nm-long polyaniline fibrils in a poly(acrylic acid)-template-guided polymerization, similar in many ways to those produced from polymerized SUVs (see above), provides a recent example of polymer colloids [449], The use of poly(styenesulfonic acid) as a template yielded globular polyaniline particles which were found to be quite different morphologically from those observed in the regular chemical synthesis of polyaniline [449]. 

Examples of acid-catalyzed carbonyl chemistiy are abundant in synthetic organic chemistry, biochemistry, industrial processes (such as in the synthesis of malachite green eq 5), and in polymer chemistry (such as in the synthesis of bisphenols of derived epoxy and polycarbonate resins eq 6).9... 

Friedel-Crafts aromatic substitution reactions have been widely explored in polymer chemistry [29,30] and generally proceed with Lewis acids such as AICI3 with elimination of hydrogen halides. In superacid solutions, however, the Friedel-Crafts reactions take place with dehydration from the oxygen of the carbonyl group and the proton of aromatics. The reactivity of the pro-tonated carbonyl group in the superacid can be further increased by the... 

According to Eq. (25), a cyclic phosphite monomer (MN) 38 is oxidized to a phosphate unit yielding copolymer 40 whereas the a-keto acid monomer (ME) 39 is reduced to the corresponding a-hydroxy acid ester. Thus, the term redox copolymerization has been proposed to designate this type of copolymerization in which one monomer is reduced and the other monomer oxidized. The redox copolymerization clearly differs from the so-called redox polymerization in classical polymer chemistry where the redox reaction between the two catalyst components (oxidant and reductant) is responsible for the production of free radicals. 

Thiadiazoles readily undergo photochemical reactions (see Section 4.24.3.1) which have been utilized in polymer chemistry. For instance, polymers of type (46), formed by condensation of bisphenol epichlorohydrin copolymers and a l,2,3-thiadiazole-4-carboxylic acid, undergo photochemically induced crosslinking (70SST(1)444). This type of process is useful in the printing and electronic industries. 

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