Properties of Polymers in Solutions

This chapter presents various examples of enzyme catalysis by polymers including ester hydrolysis, decomposition of hydrogen peroxide, oxidation of disubstituted phenols and hydroquinone, interfacial catalysis and other types of reaction. Because metal ions (Fe, Zn, Cu. Mn, Co, etc.) are often involved as coferments during enzyme catalysis, some examples illustrating their catalytic action are also given. The catalytic activity of polymeric coordination compounds is shown to depend on the strength of the ligand-metal bond. 

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The properties of polymers in solution are investigated in conjunction with adsorption since solution properties are dependent on polymer-solvent interactions... 

A brief and lucid discussion of the properties of polymers in solution is in the introductory chapter of... 

Though the static properties of polymers in solution are now quite well-known, only a small fraction of them has been proved in a perfectly rigorous manner. We owe the main results, concerning numbers of chains to the British mathematician Hammers ley1 4 who studied the problem around 1960, and some refinements are due to Kesten (1963).5 These are summarized below in a modified form. 

In this chapter, we describe both types successively by showing how these techniques can be applied to the determination of properties of polymers in solution. However, one must be aware of the fact that this separation into two kinds of renormalization is somewhat arbitrary there are connections between the various points of view and bridges between the various methods, and all of them follow from the seminal work of Wilson.3,4... 

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