TY - JOUR
AU - Kennedy, Joseph P.
AB - The tortuous road to living carbocationic polymerizations is chronicled. The impetus for this project was my conviction that, just as living anionic polymerizations have started with a critical insight, a similar breakthrough will also be possible with cations. Upon retrospect, the facts show a three‐step progression to the objective: Discovery of 1) controlled initiation, 2) reversible termination (quasiliving systems), and 3) controlled chain transfer. But what good is the discovery of a process without demonstrating its usefulness in terms of desirable products? Thus, a section concerns unique microarchitectures obtainable only by this technique: functional liquids, telechelics, thermoplastic elastomers, etc. The marketing of some of these products has already started, and the fundamental exploration of the promises of this technique is in progress worldwide. © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Polym Sci A: Polym Chem 37: 2285–2293, 1999
TI - Living cationic polymerization of olefins. How did the discovery come about?
JF - Journal of Polymer Science Part A Polymer Chemistry
DO - 10.1002/(SICI)1099-0518(19990715)37:14<2285::AID-POLA1>3.0.CO;2-P
DA - 2000-03-15
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/living-cationic-polymerization-of-olefins-how-did-the-discovery-come-16lDECiCY5
SP - 2285
EP - 2293
VL - 37
IS - 14
DP - DeepDyve
ER -