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Advances in the field of organo‐element polymers
Author(s) -
Korshak V. V.,
Kozyreva N. M.
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.19860040103
Subject(s) - polymer , element (criminal law) , macromolecule , chemistry , organic chemistry , materials science , nanotechnology , polymer science , biochemistry , political science , law
Organo‐element polymers are a rapidly developing field of high molecular weight compounds. As A.N. Nesmeyanov points out, the organo‐element polymer chemistry is the science lying between inorganic and organic chemistry, that is undoubtedly its positive factor, because this allows to prepare polymeric compounds combining positive properties of the compounds of these two fields. Due to this, many elements of the Periodic System capable of forming various polymeric compounds are widely investigated, and a number of organo‐element polymers have already found practical application in many fields of modern engineering and national economy. It should be noted that at present already more than 75 elements have been used in synthesis of various high molecular weight organo‐element compounds. Besides carbon, among these compounds hydrogen, oxygen and silicon are remarkable. Other elements only begin their way to the polymer field. The concept of raznozvennost (different‐units structure) is of great importance for studying the synthesis and the properties of these polymers. This concept made it possible to clarify distinguishing role of anomalous units in determining the complex of physico‐chemical properties of high molecular weight organo‐element compounds. It is especially important to emphasize that among factors giving rise to anomalous units causing polymer raznozvennost the presence of stable isotope atoms arranged statistically in polymer macromolecules plays an essential role. The lecture is a general review of polymers by the groups of the Periodic System. It discusses the methods for synthesis of organo‐element polymers used at the present time as well as perspective development of this field in the future.