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Functionalization of living polymers – results and problems
Author(s) -
Weber Lothar
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
makromolekulare chemie. macromolecular symposia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.257
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1521-3900
pISSN - 0258-0322
DOI - 10.1002/masy.19860030124
Subject(s) - polymer , surface modification , polymer science , materials science , work (physics) , chemical engineering , nanotechnology , composite material , engineering , mechanical engineering
Abstract In spite of intensive research, work during the last 20–30 years, even today, the reaction products of living polymers are produced only in small quantities on industrial scale. The expected production of tyres from telechelic polymers was not reached, The difficulty is that the functionalization of living polymers does not result in only one type of functionalized polymer chain but always in a mixture of non‐, mono‐, di‐ and polyfunctionalized compounds. During the last years different technologies for functionalizing living polymers were developed in Buna. The results of these investigations are discussed. Likewise, we show that the functionalized living polymers of ∝‐methylstyrene are of great interest for different industrial uses. A complete technological scheme for the production of telechelic polymers has been developed, which is attached herewith.