Crompton T.R. Characterisation of Polymers. V.2

Smithers Rapra. 2008. 538 p.

This book is intended to be a complete compendium of the types of methodology that have evolved for the determination of the chemical composition of polymers. The structure and microstructure of polymers, copolymers and rubbers are dealt with in Volume
2. More detailed aspects, such as sequencing of monomer units in copolymers, end-group analysis, tacticity and stereochemical determinations, are also dealt with in this subsequent volume. This book gives an up-to-date and thorough exposition of the state-of-the-art theories and availability of instrumentation needed to effect chemical and physical analysis of polymers. This is supported by approximately 1200 references.

Contents

Pyrolysis – Gas Chromatography
Complementary Pyrolysis-Gas Chromatography-FT-IR
Complementary Pyrolysis – Mass Spectrometry
Complementary Pyrolysis Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry
Reaction Gas Chromatography Techniques
Sequencing of Homopolymers
Sequencing in Copolymers
Stereoisomerism and Tacticity
Regioisomerism
Branching
Block Copolymers
Types of Unsaturation
Determination of End-groups