Preface .............................................................................................................................. ix
1. Reversible Deactivation Radical Polymerization: State-of-the-Art in 2017 ....... 1
Sivaprakash Shanmugam and Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
2. Mechanistic Insights into Lewis Acid Mediated Sequence- and
Stereo-Control in Radical Copolymerization ...................................................... 41
Nicholas S. Hill, Benjamin B. Noble, and Michelle L. Coote
3. Time-Resolved Electron Spin Resonance Observations of the Initial Stages
of Conventional and Controlled Radical Polymerization Processes ................. 63
Atsushi Kajiwara
4. Elements of RAFT Navigation .............................................................................. 77
Joris J Haven, Matthew Hendrikx, Tanja Junkers, Pieter J Leenaers,
Theodora Tsompanoglou, Cyrille Boyer, Jiangtao Xu, Almar Postma, and
Graeme Moad
5. Reducing the Hydrogen Atom Abstraction Efficiencies of
Benzophenone-Based Photosensitive Alkoxyamines ........................................ 105
Jason C. Morris, Jean-Louis Clément, Yohann Guillaneuf, Steven E. Bottle,
Kathryn Fairfull-Smith, and Didier Gigmes
6. Catalyzed Radical Termination (CRT) in the Metal-Mediated
Polymerization of Acrylates: Experimental and Computational Studies ...... 135
Thomas G. Ribelli, S. M. Wahidur Rahaman, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, and
Rinaldo Poli
7. Electrochemical Procedures To Determine Thermodynamic and Kinetic
Parameters of Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization .................................... 161
Francesca Lorandi, Marco Fantin, Francesco De Bon, Abdirisak A. Isse, and
Armando Gennaro
8. Insights into the Reactivity of Epoxides as Reducing Agents in
Low-Catalyst-Concentration ATRP Reactions ................................................. 191
David C. McLeod, Kapil Dev Sayala, and Nicolay V. Tsarevsky
9. Toward Butadiene-ATRP with Group 10 (Ni, Pd, Pt) Metal Complexes ........ 205
Vignesh Vasu, Joon-Sung Kim, Hyun-Seok Yu, William I. Bannerman,
Mark E. Johnson, and Alexandru D. Asandei
10. Reversible Deactivation Radical Polymerization of Vinyl Chloride ............... 227
Carlos M. R. Abreu, Ana C. Fonseca, Nuno M. P. Rocha, James T. Guthrie,
Arménio C. Serra, and Jorge F. J. Coelho
11. Photoinduced Metal Free Strategies for Atom Transfer Radical
Polymerization ...................................................................................................... 263
G. Yilmaz, C. Kutahya, A. Allushi, C. Aydogan, S. Aykac, and Y. Yagci
12. Recent Developments in External Regulation of Reversible Addition
Fragmentation Chain Transfer (RAFT) Polymerization ................................. 273
Sivaprakash Shanmugam, Cyrille Boyer, and Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
13. How Can Xanthates Control the RAFT Polymerization of Methacrylates? .... 291
Mathias Destarac, Dimitri Matioszek, Xavier Vila, Juliette Ruchmann-Sternchuss,
and Samir Z. Zard
14. Hydroxyl Radical Activated RAFT Polymerization ......................................... 307
Thomas G. McKenzie, Amin Reyhani, Mitchell D. Nothling, and Greg G. Qiao
15. Vinyl Ether/Vinyl Ester Copolymerization by Cationic and Radical
Interconvertible Simultaneous Polymerization ................................................. 323
Kotaro Satoh, Yuuma Fujiki, Mineto Uchiyama, and Masami Kamigaito
16. Catalytic Chain Transfer Polymerization and Reversible Deactivation
Radical Polymerization of Vinyl Acetate Mediated by Cobalt(II)
Phenoxy-imine Complexes .................................................................................. 335
Yi-Hao Chen, Hung-Hsun Lu, Jia-Qi Li, and Chi-How Peng
17. Tailor-Made Poly(vinylamine)s via Thermal or Photochemical
Organometallic Mediated Radical Polymerization ........................................... 349
Pierre Stiernet, Mathilde Dréan, Christine Jérôme, Patrick Midoux, Philippe Guégan,
Jutta Rieger, and Antoine Debuigne
18. Alkyl Bromide as Precursor of Initiating Dormant Species in
Organocatalyzed Living Radical Polymerization ............................................. 365
Feifei Li, Longqiang Xiao, and Atsushi Goto
19. Biocatalytic ATRP ................................................................................................ 379
Jonas Pollard and Nico Bruns
Editors' Biographies .................................................................................................... 395
Indexes
Author Index ................................................................................................................ 399
Subject Index ................................................................................................................ 401