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Nishoika, Masaharu, 235 Rabideau, Peter W., 73 Rabinovitz, Mordecai, 53 Richardson, Thomas J., 169 Ross, David S., 155 Sakikawa, Noriyuki, 357 Scanlon, Joseph C., 109,367 Schmitt, Robert J., 155 Schweitzer, Dieter, 333 Shine, Henry J., 127 Singer, L. S., 269 Sorok, Miroslaw, 127 Speight, James G., 201 Szentpaly, Laszlo v., 287 Szwarc, Michael, 13 Tanzella, Francis L., 169 Uetake, Kazuya, 357 Urimoto, Hideo, 357 Woody, Madge C., 255... 

Since its inception, the institute, in addition to its regular faculty members, has always had a number of outstanding scientists associated with it as fellows or adjunct facnlty. These include, among others, Ned Arnett, Joe Casanova, Paul Schleyer, Jean Sommer, Gabor Somorjai, Peter Stang, Michael Szwarc (who just recently passed away), Ken Wade, and Bob Williams. They greatly contribnte to onr scientific work by their visits and participation in our symposia and freqnently throngh close research cooperation. Because they are also close friends. 

Marcel Van Beylen1, Stanley Bywater2, Georges Smets1, Michael Szwarc 3, and Denis J. Worsfold2... 

Michael Szwarc (Courtesy SUNY V College of Environmental Science and Forestry). 

In 1956, Michael Szwarc (of the Slate University of New York at Syracuse)... 

Interest in anionic polymerization grew enormously following the work of Michael Szwarc in the mid 1950s. He demonstrated that under carefully controlled conditions carbanionic living polymers could be formed using electron transfer initiation. 

Polynuclear AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS and heterocycles are quite abundant in fossil fuel materials such as coal and petroleum, and insights into new chemistry can potentially lead to developments in the areas of fuels, lubricants, chemicals, and carbonaceous materials. The study of large aromatic hydrocarbons is long-standing, and the symposium upon which this book is based was held on the 30th anniversary of a symposium, Polycyclic Hydrocarbons , held in Atlantic City in September 1956 and published in Volume 1 of the Preprints of the Petroleum Division. We are fortunate to have as one of the contributors to this book, Michael Szwarc, who was an author of one of the papers of the 1956 symposium ( Reactivities of Deformed Aromatic Hydrocarbons ). 

One of the most important advances in the science and technology of anionic polymerization was the report in 1956 by Michael Szwarc and coworkers delineating the characteristics of living anionic polymerizations, that is, that they proceed in the absence of the kinetic steps of chain transfer... 

First example of living pol3Tnerization was discovered by Michael Szwarc (f909-2000) in 1956 in the anionic polymerization of styrene in special cat-al3dic system. In this type of polymerization active chain end is negatively charged which prevents most of termination processes. 

Living polymerization was a phrase coined by Michael Szwarc [23] to describe a polymerization process that stops because it runs out of... 

AKIHIKO YAMAGISHI research associate at the Department of Chemistry, Hokkaido University at Sapporo in Japan, was born in 1943. He received a D.Sc. at the University of Tokyo with Dr. Kenzi Tamaru. He joined the research team of Dr. Masatoshi Fujimoto at Hokkaido University in 1972. From 1977-79, he worked with Dr. Michael Szwarc of the State University of New York at Syracuse as a postdoctoral fellow. His main field of study is polymer-small molecule interation, stereochemistry of coordinated compounds, asymmetric induction and optical resolution of racemic mixtures. 

The Michael M. Szwarc Polymer Research Institute, Department of Chemistry, and Department of Enviromental and Forest Biology, College of Enviromental Science and Forestry, State University of New York, Syracuse, NY 13210... 

PERSPECTIVES ON THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF MICHAEL SZWARC TO POLYMER SCIENCE... 

Professor Michael Szwarc has published over four hundred papers, numerous reviews and three books. He has received a number of major awards, including the ACS Award in Polymer Chemistry (1969), the International Award in Plastics Science and Engineering (1972), the Gold Medal of the Benjamin Franklin Society (1978), and, at this Biennial Symposium, the 1990 Division of Polymer Chemistry Award given by the ACS Polymer Division. More recently. Professor Szwarc has been awarded the prestigious Kyoto Prize for 1991. 

The research activities of Professor Michael Szwarc started in 1945, after the second World War, when he joined the research group of Professor Polanyi in Manchester, England. There he developed a pyrolytic technique (toluene carrier method) that allowed him to determine bond dissociation energies of over fifty polyatomic molecules. The work done until 1950 was summarized in a review article published in Chem. Rev. 47,75,1950 and earned him a D.Sc. in 1949. 

Professor Michael Szwarc is truly one of the pioneers of polymer science. The members of the ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry recognize his many creative contributions to macromolecular chemistry and his tremendous lasting impact on this field. It is with great pleasure that we honor Professor Szwarc with the Division of Polymer Chemistry award on the occasion of this 1990 Biennial Symposium. 

A particular highlight of the meeting was the presentation to Professor Michael Szwarc of the 1990 Division of Polymer Chemistry Award by Dr. J. L. Benham, Chairman of the /lymer Division. During his Award adi ess. Professor Szwarc described how he had become a polymer chemist and later developed "living polymers." Without a doubt. Professor Szwarc has made a profound contribution to the polymer field, which has yielded many new forms of living polymerization. 

Perspectives on the Contributions of Michael Szwarc to PolymCT Science. 1... 

Aragrag N, Castiglione DC, Davies PR, Davis FJ, Patel SI (2004) General procedures in chain-growth polymerization. In Davis FJ (ed) Polymer chemistry a practical approach. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp 43-98. ISBN 9780198503095 Baskaran D, Muller AHE (2007) Anionic vinyl polymerization— 50 years after Michael Szwarc. Prog Polym Sci 32 173... 

Person to discover - Michael Szwarc, William Gorham ... 

Details Michael Szwarc was able to identify PPX in products of decomposition of p-xylene. William Gorham developed its synthesis from di-p-xylylene, and Union Carbide commercialized it in 1965. ... 

Smid J, Van Beylen M, Hogen-Esch TE. Perspectives on the contributions of Michael Szwarc to living polymerization. Prog Polym Sci 2006 31 1041-1067. 

Michael Szwarc, USA, discovered living anionic polymerization. This technique permitted the preparation of narrow molar mass fractions and exact di- and tri-block copolymers. Thermoplastic elastomers, such as Kraton (Shell Chemical Co., USA), are prepared by living anionic polymerization. 

Michael de Sorgo, David C. Pepper, and Michael Szwarc,... 

Michael Szwarc State University of New York Polymer Research Center College of Environment Science and Forestry... 

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