Nitration. Recent Laboratory and Industrial Developments

Content: Step-polymerization reactions via nickel- and palladium-catalyzed carbon-carbon bond formation / Virgil Percec and Dale H. Hill --
From arylX to arylH activation in metal-catalyzed polymerization reactions / W. Heitz --
Palladium-catalyzed carbonylation polymerizations / Robert J. Perry --
Synthesis of polycinnamamide catalyzed by palladium-graphite / Mitsutoshi Jikei, Masanori Miyauchi, Yuichi Ishida, Masa-aki Kakimoto, and Yoshio Imai / Synthesis of high-molecular-weight polymers by ruthenium-catalyzed step-growth copolymerization of acetophenones with [alpha], [omega]-dienes / Hongjie Guo, Mark A. Tapsak, Guohong Wang, and William P. Weber --
Access to silicon-derived polymers via acyclic diene metathesis chemistry / S. Cummings, E. Ginsburg, R. Miller, J. Portmess, Dennis W. Smith, Jr., and K. Wagener --
Comparison of linear, hyperbranched, and dendritic macromolecules / Craig J. Hawker and Jean M.J. Fréchet --
Dendritic structures with polyfunctional cores / A.-Dieter Schlüter, Wilhelm Claussen, Birol Karakaya, and W. Lamer --
Syntheses of telechelic, star-shaped, and hyperbranched aromatic polyesters / Hans R. Kricheldorf, Olaf Stöber, Gerd Löhden, Thomas Stuckenbrock, and Dierk Lübbers --
Design, synthesis, and properties of dendritic macromolecules / Craig J. Hawker and Wayne Devonport --
Adamantane-containing polymers / Lon J. Mathias, Jennifer J. Jensen, Veronica T. Reichert, Charles M. Lewis, and Gordon L. Tullos --
Poly(aryl ether) synthesis / Jeff W. Labadie, James L. Hedrick, and Mitsuru Ueda --
Synthesis and properties of a novel series of poly(arylene ether ketone)s containing unsymmetric benzonaphthone units / J.E. Douglas and Z.Y. Wang --
Synthesis of novel poly(aryl ether)s / Allan S. Hay --
Synthesis and characterization of photoresponsive and thermosetting aromatic polyethers / Atul Bhatnagar and Dillip K. Mohanty --
Poly(aryl ether benzazole)s : self-polymerization of AB monomers via benzimidazole-activated ether synthesis / T.J. Matray, R.J. Twieg, and James L. Hedrick --
Investigation of monomer reactivity in poly(aryl ether) synthesis utilizing ¹⁹F NMR spectroscopy / Kenneth R. Carter --
A survey of some recent advances in step-growth polymerization / Jeff W. Labadie, James L. Hedrick, and Mitsuru Ueda --
Mechanism of step-growth thermal polymerization of arylacetylene / S. Gandon, P. Mison, and B. Sillion --
Synthesis of aromatic polyethers containing nonlinear optical chromophores / Joseph J. Kulig, Collin G. Moore, and William J. Brittain --
Polycondensation of carboxylic acids and carbinols in heterogeneous media / Lei Jong and John C. Saam --
Polycarbonates derived from trans-1,4-cyclohexane units / Jeff W. Labadie, E. Hadziiouannou, and B. Haidar --
Polyurethanes based on fluorinated diols / Tai Ho, Aslam A. Malik, Kenneth J. Wynne, Thomas J. McCarthy, Kent H.-Z. Zhuang, Kurt Baum, and Robert V. Honeychuck --
Poly(sulfonium cation) for the synthesis of high-molecular-weight poly(phenylene sulfide) / Kimihisa Yamamoto and Eishun Tsuchida --
Formation of transparent silica-polymer hybrids based on siloxane-containing polyimides / Norbert A. Johnen, Laura L. Beecroft, and Christopher K. Ober --
Thianthrene-containing polymers : polyimides, aramids, and polybenzoxazoles / Randy A. Johnson and Lon J. Mathias --
A new facile and rapid synthesis of polyamides and polyimides by microwave-assisted polycondensation / Yoshio Imai --
Novel step-growth polymers from the thermal [2[pi] + 2[pi]] cyclopolymerization of aryl trifluorovinyl ether monomers / David A. Babb, R. Vernon Snelgrove, Dennis W. Smith, Jr., and Scott F. Mudrich --
Synthesis of ordered polymer by direct polycondensation. 6, Ordered poly(acylhydrazide-amide-thioether) / Mitsuru Ueda and Takashi Okada.