Chemistry International
Vol. 24, No. 6
November 2002
New Books
and Publications
Ionic
Poylmerization
Nikos
Hadjichristidis and Hermis Iatrou (symposium editors)
Macromolecular
Symposium, Vol.
183, pp. 1-210, 2002.
Wiley-VCH, 2002, (ISBN 3-527-30473-8)
The IUPAC
International Symposium on Ionic Polymerization (IP01)the
fourth in the series after Istanbul (1995), Paris (1997), and Kyoto
(1999)was held in Crete, Greece, in October 2001. The major topics
of the symposium included anionic and cationic polymerization, both
vinyl and ring opening, as well as living radical, metathesis, metal-coordination,
template and enzymatic polymerization. One day of the symposium was
devoted to polymer physical chemistry and physics. Most of the invited
lectures and selected papers are compiled in this issue of Macromolecular
Symposia, which provides an excellent overview of current research in
this area.
The Crete
Symposium was the first to incorporate lectures on polymer physical
chemistry and physics. There were altogether over 240 active participants
from about 30 countries. In total, 66 invited lectures, 29 oral lectures
and 91 posters were presented.
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