POLYMERIC REAGENTS AND CATALYSTS

Ford, Warren T. in Polymeric Reagents and Catalysts Ford, Warren T., Ed. ACS Symposium Series 308 American Chemical Society Washington, DC, 1986 pp 247-285. 

Cross-linked polystyrene and its functional derivatives are widely used in organic syntheses as polymeric reagents and catalysts.28 However, thermal and chemical stability of such materials has to be better. Some improvement in these properties can be achieved by the grafting of styrene with the following chemical modification or grafting of other functional monomers. 

Reactions on macromolecular precursors are most often the key step in the synthesis of sophisticated polymers in various well documented fields of steadily increasing importance such as a) linear or crosslinked polymeric reagents and catalysts (2,5,6, 49) b) polymers showing esterolytic enzyme-like properties (2, 49-52) c) polymeric drugs (53.54) and so on... Three more specific but still highly significant studies are outlined below. 

D.E. Bergbreiter in Polymeric reagents and catalysts (Ed. W.T. Ford), ACS Symposium Series 308, Washington DC,... 

Ford, W. T., ed., Polymeric Reagents and Catalysts, Am. Chem. Soc. Symp. Ser., Vol. 308, American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, 1986a. 

F. J. Waller, Catalysis with a Perfluorinated Ion-Exchange Polymer, in Polymeric Reagents and Catalysts (ed. W. T. Ford), American Chemical Society Symposium Series (ACS), 308, Washington DC, 1986, Chap. 3, p. 42. 

G. Wulff, In Polymeric reagents and catalysts, ACS Symp. Series, 308, W.T. Ford Ed., American Chemical Society, Washington DC, p. 186 (1986), and references therein. 

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