Chemical Microstructure of Polymers Chains

Presents basic principles and experimental techniques for the analysis of the chemical microstructure of homo- and copolymer chains. Provides mathematical methods for calculating microstructure based on chemical models of the polymerization process. The basis of chemical and physical methods (i. e., vibrational and NMR) are presented with special emphasis on their role in determining repeating units and sequencing units in polymer chains. A detailed analysis of the copolymerization processes is presented and the microstructure of a copolymer is used for the determination of the copolymerization mechanism.