NMR Spectroscopy and Polymer Microstructure - (Methods in Stereochemical Analysis) by Alan E Tonelli (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Dieses Buch beschreibt verschiedene Techniken, die Mikrostruktur von Polymeren zu analysieren. Der Autor stellt vor allem die Vorzüge der hochauflösenden NMR-Spektroskopie in Lösung und in festem Zustand vor und diskutiert deren Anwendung auf biologische und synthetische Polymere. Er zeigt, daß die Interpretation der NMR-Spektren in bezug auf die Mikrostruktur durch Betrachtung der lokalen Polymer-Konformation gelingt. Die zahlreichen Beispiele und Abbildungen, die diese Beziehung verdeutlichen, sind ein besonders auffälliges Merkmal des Buches. Sie helfen auch dem Neuling auf diesem Gebiet, die Mikrostruktur von Polymeren zuverlässig bestimmen zu können.

About the Author

Alan Tonelli received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Kansas in 1964 and a Ph.D. in Polymer Chemistry from Stanford in 1968, where he was associated with the late Professor Paul J. Flory. He was a member of the Polymer Chemistry Research Department at AT&T-Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, for 23 years and in 1991 joined the Fiber & Polymer Science Program in the College of Textiles at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC, where he is currently the INVISTA Professor of Fiber and Polymer Chemistry. His research interests include the configurations, conformations, and structures of synthetic and biological polymers, their determination, principally by NMR and Kerr effect observations, and establishing their effects on the physical properties of polymer materials. Most recently, the formation of and coalescence from noncovalent crystalline inclusion compounds (ICs) formed between cyclodextrin (CD) hosts and polymer guests have been used to nanostructure bulk polymers, including homopolymers and their blends, and block copolymers. In addition, small-molecule guest-CD-ICs (crystalline) and -rotaxanes (soluble), and the covalent incorporation of CDs into polymers both during and subsequent to their syntheses, have been used to improve the delivery of additives to polymer materials.