Subsections
[Cr:4, Lc:3, Tt:0, Lb:0]
- Basic characteristics of polymers, melting point of polymers, glass
transition temperature, molecular weight and molecular weight
distribution.
- Organic polymers: Synthetic polymers and their syntheses via
free radical polymerization, polymerization by ionic initiators,
Ziegler-Natta type polymerization, atom transfer radical
polymerization, ring opening polymerization, olefin metathesis and
polymerization, group transfer polymerization, condensation
polymerization.
- Inorganic polymers:
- Siloxanes and polysiloxanes: conformational flexibility and glass
transition temperature, ring opening polymerization of cyclosiloxanes
by ionic initiators, and crosslinking of polysiloxanes.
- Preparation of polysilanes by - Wurtz-type reactions, -catalytic
dehydrogenation, and -anionic initiators. Applications of polysilanes,
NMR spectra, electronic spectra and optical activity of polysilanes.
Polysilynes.
- Cyclophosphazenes and polyphosphazenes. Cyclophosphazenes containing
polymers and their applications. Polyheterophosphazenes (with hetero
atom, such as C, B, and S), metallacyclophosphazenes, borazine based
polymers.
- Organometallic polymers: Ferrocene containing polymers, polygermanes
and polystannanes.
- H. R. Allcock, F. W. Lampe, J. E. Mark, Comtemporary Polymer
Chemistry, Indian Edition, 3rd Ed, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs,
New Jersy (1980).
- V. Chandrasekhar, Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers,
Springer (2005).
- I. M. Campbell, Introduction to Synthetic Polymers, 2nd Ed,
Oxford University Press, New York (2000).