July 2024
Intermediate to advanced
280 pages
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Content preview from The Essential Handbook of Polymer Terms and Attributes
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86 Ladder Polymers
Ladder polymers are a type of double-stranded polymer with the connectivity of a ladder. They are unique in that their backbones consist of fused rings with adjacent rings having two or more atoms in common.
There are two general ways to prepare ladder polymers: 1) direct ladder polymerization, in which cyclic monomer units are joined by simultaneously forming two bonds between them, and 2) zipping (lacing) of a linear prepolymer, in which the linear polymer contains regular functional side groups that are then connected to form the ladder structure (Figure 86.1).
The attempt to prepare ladder polymers can be dated back to 1926, but it wasn’t until the late 1980s and 1990s that the first series ...
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