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.