Synthetic approach, stereoregular polymers

The versatility of polymerization resides not only in the different types of polymerization reactions and types of reactants that can be polymerized, but also in variations allowed by step-growth synthesis, copolymerization, and stereospecific polymerization. Chain polymerization is the most important kind of copolymerization process and is considered separately in Chapter 7, while Chapter 9 describes the stereochemistry of polymerization with emphasis on the synthesis of polymers with stereoregular structures by the appropriate choice of polymerization conditions, including the more recent metallocene-based Ziegler-Natta systems. Synthetic approaches to starburst and hyperbranched polymers which promise to open up new applications in the future are considered in an earlier chapter dealing with step-growth polymerization. 

A very obvious way of producing stereoregular polymers using this synthetic approach is to start from monomers of high steric purity. Since the polymerization processes considered... 

SYNTHETIC APPROACHES TO STEREOREGULAR POLYMERS 4. FINAL REMARKS... 

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