Living cationic polymerization: A review.

Living Radical Polymerization: a Review

Free radical polymerization is one of the most widely employed polymerization techniques. This technique is applied to prepare latexes to be used in paints, high molecular weight poly (methyl methacrylate) for safety glass (Plexiglas), or foamed poly (styrene) to be applied in coffee cups. Some advantages of radical polymerizations, with respect to other techniques, are the relative insensitivi...

Living Cationic Polymerization of Olefins. How Did the Discovery Come About?

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 termina...

Wavelength tunability in photoinitiated cationic polymerization

Onium salts, widely used cationic photoinitiators, have absorption in the short wavelength of the UV spectrum. However, their spectral sensitivity can be tuned up to the visible region by using several methods. Photosensitization of onium salts, their charge transfer complex formation and their free radical promotion are some techniques that are used to provide wavelength flexibility. This chap...

Biologically synthesized or bioinspired process-derived iron oxides as catalysts for living cationic polymerization of a vinyl ether.

Fe(3)O(4) synthesized by magnetotactic bacteria and α-Fe(2)O(3) synthesized via a microbial-mineralization-inspired process functioned as catalysts for the controlled cationic polymerization of a vinyl ether.

Observation of eliminative cationic polymerization within van der Waals clusters