Preface

The Organometallic Polymerization of (Meth)acrylates: An Overview

Lisa Saunders Boffa

New Chain-Building Mechanisms

New Applications of ``Carbonylbis(triphenylphosphine)ruthenium'' Catalysis in Polymer Synthesis

William P. Weber

Jyri K. Paulasaari

Diyun Huang

Shashi Gupta

Timothy M. Londergan

Jonathan R. Sargent

Joseph M. Marbry

Transition Metal-Catalyzed Alkyne Cycloaddition Polymerization

Tetsuo Tsuda

Synthetic Control over Substituent Location on Carbon-Chain Polymers Using Ring-Opening Polymerization of Small Cycloalkanes

J. Penelle

Nucleophilic Polymerization of Methyl Methacrylate Activated by a Bronsted Acid

Masatoshi Miyamoto

Hirotomo Katano

Chika Kanda

Yoshiharu Kimura

Polymer Modification Using Transition Metals

Modification of Polybutadiene by Transition Metal Catalysts: Hydroacylation of Polybutadiene

Chul-Ho Jun

Hyuk Lee

Jun-Bae Hong

Dae-Yon Lee

Metallocene Catalysts Used for the Hydrogenation of Polystyrene-b-Polybutadiene-b-Polystyrene Block Copolymers

Raymond Chien-chao Tsiang

Wen-shen Yang

Ming-der Tsai

E-Glass Fiber Supported Hydrosilation Catalysts

L. G. Britcher

J. G. Matisons

Olefin/Alkyne Addition Polymerization

New Catalysts for Polymerizations of Substituted Acetylenes

Ben Zhong Tang

Kaitian Xu

Qunhui Sun

Priscilla P. S. Lee

Han Peng

Fouad Salhi

Yuping Dong

Addition Polymerization of Norbornene: Catalysis of Monocyclopentadienyltitanium Compounds Activated with Methylaluminoxane

Qing Wu

Yingying Lu

Zejian Lu

Transfer and Isomerization Reactions in Propylene Polymerization with the Isospecific, Highly Regiospecific rac-Me2C(3-t-Bu-1-Ind)2ZrCl2/MAO Catalyst

Isabella Camurati

Anna Fait

Fabrizio Piemontesi

Luigi Resconi

Stefano Tartarini

Controlled Radical Polymerization

Living Radical Polymerization of Acrylates with Rhenium(V)-Based Initiating Systems: ReO2I(PPh3)2/Alkyl Iodide

Hiroko Uegaki

Yuzo Kotani

Masami Kamigaito

Mitsuo Sawamoto

The Effect of Ligands on Copper-Mediated Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization

Jianhui Xia

Xuan Zhang

Krysztof Matyjaszewski

Structural Chemistry and Polymerization Activity of Copper(I) Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization Catalysts

Amy T. Levy

Timothy E. Patten

Atom Transfer Polymerization Mediated by Solid-Supported Catalysts

David M. Haddleton

Arnaud Radigue

Dax Kukulj

David J. Duncalf

Mechanistic Aspects of Catalytic Chain Transfer Polymerization

John P. A. Heuts

Darren J. Forster

Thomas P. Davis

Indexes

Author Index

Subject Index