内容包括：
HISTORICAL INTRODUCTl0N、TYPES 0F POLYMERIC SUBSTANCES：DEFINITIONS AND 、MOLECULAR SIZE AND CHEMICAL REACTIVITY；PRINCIPLES OF CONDENSATION POLYMERIZATION、POLYMERIZATION OF UNSATURATED MONOMERS BY FREE RADICAL MECHANISMS、COPOLYMERIZATION,EMULSION POLYMERIZATION AND IONIC POLYMERIZATION、THE STRUCTURE OF VINYL POLYMERS等。
显示更多
显示更少

Preface
CHAPTER Ⅰ HISTORICAL INTRODUCTl0N
1.Early Investigations on NaturaUy Occurring Polymers
2.Early Encounters with Condensation Polymers
3.Vinyl Polymers
4.Rise of the Macromoleoular Hypothesis
References.
CHAPTER Ⅱ TYPES 0F POLYMERIC SUBSTANCES:DEFINITIONS AND CLASSIFICATIONS
1.Primary Definitions
2.Classification of Polymers
3.Condensation Polymers and Condensation Polymerization
4.Addition Pobrmers from Unsaturated Monomers
5.Polymerization of Cyclic Compounds
6.Anomalous Conden8ation Polymerizations
7.Inorganic Polymers
8.Concluding Remarks on the Structure and Properties of High Polymers
References.
CHAPTER Ⅲ MOLECULAR SIZE AND CHEMICAL REACTIVITY;PRINCIPLES OF CONDENSATION POLYMERIZATION
1.Chemical Reactivity in Homologous Series of Monomeric Com—pouuds
2.Theory of the Reactivity of Large Molecules
3.Kinetics of Condensation Polymerization
4.Kinetics of Degradation of Condensation Polymers
4a.Hydrolysis of Cellulose and Cellulose Derivatives
4b.Hydrolysis of Polyamides
4c.Alcoholysis of Polyesters
4d.Interchange Reactions in Condensation Polymers
5.Molecular Weights of Linear Condensation Polymers
6.Ring Formation vs.Chain Polymerization
7.Summary and Conclusions: The Principle of Equal Reactivity of All Functional Groups
References.
CHAPTER Ⅳ POLYMERIZATION OF UNSATURATED MONOMERS BY FREE RADICAL MECHANISMS
1.The Conversion of Monomer to Polymer
1a.Kinetic Scheme for Polymerization in the Presence of an Initiator
1b.Dependence of Initial Rates on the Concentrations of Initi-ator and Monomer
1c.Initiator Efficiencies
1d.Evaluation of Parameters
1e.The Course of the Conversion of Monomer to Polymer;Autoacceleration
1f.Kinetics of Thermal Polymerization
2.Chain Lengths
2a.Kinetic Chain Length and Degree of Polymerization
2b.Kinetics of Chain Transfer.
2c.Chain Transfer in Undiluted Monomer; Evaluation of Parameters
2d.Chain Transfer with Solvents
2e.Dependence of the Degree of Polymerization on Tempera-ture
2f.Regulators
3.Absolute Values of the Rate Constants for Individual Steps
3a.Methods for Determining the Mean Lifetime of an Active Center.
3b.Experimental Results
4.Inhibition and Retardation of Polymerization
4a.Reaction Mechanisms
4b.Kinetics of Inhibition and Retardation
4c.Allylic Polymerization; Autoinhibition
References.
CHAPTER Ⅴ COPOLYMERIZATION,EMULSION POLYMERIZATION AND IONIC POLYMERIZATION
CHAPTER Ⅵ THE STRUCTURE OF VINYL POLYMERS
CHAPTER Ⅶ DETERMINATION OF MOLECULAR WEIGHTS
CHAPTER Ⅷ MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTIONS IN LINEAR POLYMERS
CHAPTER Ⅸ MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTIONS IN NONLINEAR
CHAPTER Ⅹ CONFIGTURATION OF POLYMER CHAINS
CHAPTER Ⅺ RUBBER ELASTICITY
CHAPTER Ⅻ STATISTICAL THERMODYNAMICS OF POLYMER SOLUTIONS
CHAPTER XIII PHASE EQUILIBRIA IN POLYMER SYSTEMS
CHAPTER XIV CONFIGURATIONAL AND FRICTIONAL PROPERTIES OF THE POLYMER MOLECULE IN DILUTE SOLUTION
GLOSSARY OF PRINCIPAL SYMBOLS
AUTHOR INDEX
SUBJECT INDEX