and that of Robertson and Marion [153] on butadiene polymerization by sodium in toluene, merely showed the important role of the solvent in participating in chain transfer reactions. The true nature ...

In these chain addition reactions, the active species is cationic in nature, initiated by strong acids, either of the protic or Lewis variety [21, 104 111]. Since most of these ionic polymerizations ...

Polymer synthesis, also called polymerization, is the process by which monomers (small molecules) are covalently bonded to form a (usually long) polymer chain or network. Our recent studies on the ...