# Synthesis of Polymers

Tennis racquets, a use for Kevlar®, a polyaramid. Kevlar® is made from monomers 1,4-phenylene-diamine (para-phenylenediamine) and terephthaloyl chloride. Learn more in Lecture 7. (Image courtesy of Alejandro Colombo.)

### Instructor(s)

Prof. Paula Hammond

### MIT Course Number

10.569

### As Taught In

Fall 2006

### Level

Graduate

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Some Description
Instructor(s) | Prof.
As Taught In | Spring 2002
Course Number | 2.24
Level | Undergraduate/Graduate
Features | Lecture Notes, Student Work

## Course Description

## Course Features

- Lecture notes
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## Course Description

Studies synthesis of polymeric materials, emphasizing interrelationships of chemical pathways, process conditions, and microarchitecture of molecules produced. Chemical pathways include traditional approaches such as anionic polymerization, radical condensation, and ring-opening polymerizations. Other techniques are discussed, including stable free radical polymerizations and atom transfer free radical polymerizations (ARTP), catalytic approaches to well-defined architectures, and polymer functionalization in bulk and at surfaces. Process conditions include bulk, solution, emulsion, suspension, gas phase, and batch vs. continuous fluidized bed. Microarchitecture includes tacticity, molecular-weight distribution, sequence distributions in copolymers, errors in chains such as branches, head-to-head addition, and peroxide incorporation.

#### Acknowledgements

The instructor would like to thank Karen Shu and Karen Daniel for their work in preparing material for this course site.

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Paula Hammond. 10.569 Synthesis of Polymers. Fall 2006. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.

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