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Preface This book and an accompanying volume are addressed to chemists who are interested in radical processes and especially in controlled/living radical polymerization. They summarize the most recent accomplishments in the field. The two volumes comprise the topical reviews and specialists' contributions presented at the American Chemical Society Symposium entitled Controlled/Living Radical Polymerization that was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 17-21, 2008. The Philadelphia Meeting was a sequel to the previous ACS Symposia held in San Francisco, California, in 1997, in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1999, in Boston, Massachusetts, in 2002 and in Washington, DC, in 2005. They were summarized in the ACS Symposium Series Volume 685, Controlled Radical Polymerization, Volume 768, Controlled/Living Radical Polymerization: Progress in ATRP, NMP and RAFT, Volume 854 Advances in Controlled/Living Radical Polymerization and Volume 944, Controlled/Living Radical Polymerization: From Synthesis to Materials. The Philadelphia Meeting was very successful with 90 lectures and 123 posters presented. This illustrates a continuous growth in comparison with the San Francisco Meeting (32 lectures and 35 posters), the New Orleans (50 lectures and 50 posters), the Boston Meeting (80 lectures and 79 posters) and with the Washington Meeting (77 lectures and 119 posters). The fifty chapters submitted for publication in the ACS Symposium series could not fit into one volume and therefore we decided to split them into two volumes. In order to balance the size of each volume we did not divide the chapters into volumes related to mechanisms and materials but rather to those related to atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) and to other controlled/living radical polymerization methods: reversible-addition fragmentation transfer (RAFT) and other degenerative transfer techniques, as well as stable free radical polymerizations (SFRP) including nitroxide mediated polymerization (NMP) and organometallic mediated radical polymerization (OMRP). The first chapter in this volume provides an overview of the current status of controlled/living radical polymerization (CRP) systems. The following three chapters discuss important issues relevant to all radical polymerization methods. The mechanistic and kinetic topics of ATRP are
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covered in eight chapters. The macromolecular architecture, various hybrids and bio-related polymers prepared by ATRP are discussed in the next six chapters, Characterization and materials aspects of ATRP polymers are covered in six chapters, whereas the last four chapters discuss industrial applications of ATRP. The next volume contains 10 chapters on mechanisms and kinetics of RAFT, other degenerative transfer processes, NMP and OMRP. They are followed by six chapters devoted to molecular architecture accessible by these techniques. Various materials aspects of the resulting polymers are covered in six chapters. The last two chapters present commercial application of polymers prepared by NMP and RAFT (or MADIX). Fifty chapters published in two volumes show that CRP has made a significant progress within the last decade. New systems have been discovered; substantial progress has been achieved in understanding the mechanism and kinetics of reactions involved in all CRP systems. Significant progress has been made towards a comprehensive relationship between molecular structure and macroscopic properties. Some commercial applications of CRP were announced at the Philadelphia Meeting and it is anticipated that many new products will be soon on the market. The financial support for the symposium from the following organizations is acknowledged: ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry, Inc., ACS Petroleum Research Foundation, Arkema, Bayer, Boston Scientific, Ciba, CIP, Dionex, DSM, Elsevier, Evonik, General Electric, JSR, Lion, Mitsui Chemicals, National Starch, PPG and Sumitomo. The excellent editorial assistance from Joyce Von Vreckin is gratefully acknowledged.
Krzysztof Matyjaszewski Department of Chemistry Carnegie Mellon University 4400 Fifth Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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