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Developments in the Theory of Cationiod Polmerisations
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Rapra Technology Limited, 2002
By Professor P.H. Plesch
SUMMARY...
The interest in what were known at first as Friedel-Crafts polymerisations started in the 1930s and grew rapidly from the 1940s under the influence of the US Synthetic Rubber Programme and from the 1950s as a result of the Ziegler-Natta and related polymer developments. From 1944 Professor Plesch
has spent most of his academic life, studying the nature of what were later
called cationic and, more recently still, cationoid polymerisations. The
change of generic title reflects the growing insight into these reactions,
much of which is due to Professor Plesch and his research group.
Because of his interest in the fundamentals of the reactions, these
researches spawned the new areas of Binary Ionogenic Equilibria and the
Polarography of carbenium and oxonium ions in his laboratory.
However it is only the publications on the mechanisms of the cationoid
polymerisations that are collected together in this present volume. Each
paper or group of papers is preceded by an introductory prologue in which
the authors assesses the current relevance of his work and indicates why
even the oldest findings are still worth keeping in mind when facing new
work.
Professor Plesch directs the ruthless critical scrutiny, for which he became
well-known, to his own work, pointing out errors revealed by hindsight.
The eight Sections, each consisting of several thematically related papers,
are followed by a complete list of Professor Plesch's chemical publications.
This book is an appropriate sequel to the two books on Cationic
Polymerisations edited by Professor Plesch in 1953 and 1963. Like its
predecessors, this book will be indispensable to anyone who intends to study
the subject and also to those who use the reactions concerned to make
rubbers and resins in a chemical plant. Because of the Author's acute sense
of continuity and his awareness of 'prior art', these papers will be a
useful resource for historians of chemical ideas.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR...
Professor Plesch was born in 1918, educated at the College Française in
Berlin and Harrow School, Middlesex. He graduated from the University of
Cambridge (MA) and the University of Manchester (PhD) and was awarded the
DSc by the University of Cambridge in 1978. From 1940 he was the colloid
chemist at the British Pottery Research Association; he then worked in the
alginate industry, and his last War-related assignment was as a Research
Assistant at Manchester University. After four years there as Assistant
Lecturer he became a founder-member of the University College of North
Staffordshire (later Keele University) in 1951There he stayed, retiring in
1985 from the Chair of Physical Chemistry; as Professor Emeritus he still
enjoys the hospitality of his old Department.
Professor Plesch has published three books and over 150 chemical papers, the
latest appearing in February 2001.
CONTENTS...1. General Introduction2. Developments in the Cationic Polymerisation of Alkenes - A Personal View3. Reviews4. Theorising About Reaction Mechanisms5. About Propagating Species and Propagation Rate Constants in CationicPolymerisations6. Pseudocationic Polymerisation (y-cat), renamed circa 1998 'CationoidInsertion Polymerisation (CIP)'7. The Polymerisation of 1,3-Dioxacycloalkanes8. The Chemical Publications of P.H. Plesch in Chronological Order,1946-2001
Rapra Technology Limited
Price: £145.00 (Ex VAT)
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