THE PROGRESS OF SCIENTIFIC CHEMISTRY IN OUR OWN TIMES

By SUSAN WHITE

CONTENTS PART I: TOPOLOGICAL POLYMER CHEMISTRY - CONCEPTS AND PRACTICES - CHAPTER 1: SYSTEMATIC CLASSIFICATION OF NONLINEAR POLYMER TOPOLOGIES CHAPTER 2: TOPOLOGICAL ISOMERS IN POLYMER MOLECULES CHAPTER 3: TELECHELICS HAVING CYCLIC ONIUM SALT GROUPS CHAPTER 4: ELECTROSTATIC SELF-ASSEMBLY AND COVALENT FIXATION (ESA-CF) PROCESS CHAPTER 5: DYNAMIC CONTROL OF POLYMER TOPOLOGIES BY THE ESA-CF PROCESS CHAPTER 6: CYCLIC AND MULTICYCLIC POLYMERS HAVING FUNCTIONAL GROUPS (KYKLO-TELECHELICS) CHAPTER 7: METATHESIS POLYMER CYCLIZATION CHAPTER 8: MULTICYCLIC POLYMER TOPOLOGIES BY THE ESA-CF WITH KYKLO-TELECHELIC PRECURSORS PART II: CYCLIC POLYMERS - DEVELOPMENTS IN THE NEW CENTURY CHAPTER 9: OVERVIEW ON PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF CYCLIC POLYMERS CHAPTER 10: THE RING-CLOSURE APPROACH FOR SYNTHESIZING CYCLIC POLYMERS CHAPTER 11: CYCLIC MACROMONOMERS: SYNTHESIS AND PROPERTIES CHAPTER 12: TOPOLOGICAL EFFECTS ON THE STATISTICAL AND DYNAMICAL PROPERTIES OF RING POLYMERS IN SOLUTION CHAPTER 13: DYNAMICS OF CYCLIC POLYMERS REVEALED BY SINGLE-MOLECULE SPECTROSCOPY CHAPTER 14: PROGRESS IN THE RHEOLOGY OF CYCLIC POLYMERS CHAPTER 15: CRYSTALLIZATION OF CYCLIC AND BRANCHED POLYMERS CHAPTER 16: SELF-ASSEMBLY AND FUNCTIONS OF CYCLIC POLYMERS