Ring-Opening Polymerization

Abstract

The principal purpose of this paper is to provide a suitable introduction to the remaining 25 papers that comprise this book. As mentioned earlier in the Preface, this book is a result of a symposium presented in 1984 under the auspices of the Polymer Division of the American Chemical Society. Most of the speakers at the symposium have chosen to prepare manuscripts to further illustrate the research conducted in their own laboratories. A minority of these speakers chose to publish their work elsewhere. We have in fact been able to publish 26 of the 32 lectures which represents a substantial majority of those presented at the meeting. The range of topics discussed is quite broad and therefore should be of considerable interest to many scientists and engineers in both academic and industrial institutions around the world.