The lecture will discuss some recent work on ring-chain equilibria (RCE). Details of the nature of the macrocyclic oligomers obtained using modern analytical methods will be presented. Macrocycles with as many as, for instance, 300 ring atoms are usually present. The use of the macrocyclic oligomers in Entropically-driven Ring-opening Polymerizations (ED-ROPs) and the attractive features of this relatively new method of polymerization will be discussed.

Ring-chain equilibria revisited

245th National Meeting (2013)

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