Spatial effects in polymer chemistry

• Helmut Ritter

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2015–2016, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.198

• Helmut Ritter Institute of Organic Chemistry and Macromolecular Chemistry, Heinrich-Heine-University, Universitätsstraße 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany 10.3762/bjoc.13.198 Keywords: polymer; spatial effects; Our modern life is no longer conceivable without macromolecular materials. Important

• play a crucial role for the chain growth and chemical conversion of polymers in many cases. Among the spatial effects are H-bonds, van der Waals interactions, ionic forces, dipolar interactions, self-ordering effects and steric influences. Through IR-spectroscopic studies we have recently found that

• tacticity of a polymeric chain is a result of spatial interactions between the active growing chain end and the free monomer or a monomer–metal complex. Moreover, the preferred head-to-tail chain growth of vinyl monomers can be a result of such spatial effects. The spatial arrangement of polymer chains in

Methylenelactide: vinyl polymerization and spatial reactivity effects

• Judita Britner and
• Helmut Ritter

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2378–2389, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.232

• quantitative amidation reactions with aliphatic primary amines under mild conditions [7]. In the underlying study, we focused on spatial effects with respect to interactions between neighboring lactide rings. Based on these findings, polymer analogous reactions of poly(MLA) with different alcohols were