New Macromolecular Architecture and Functions: Proceedings of the OUMS'95 Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan, 2-5 June, 1995 Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1996 edition

Description for Sales People: This volume summarizes the main lectures presented at the Osaka University Macromolecular Symposium OUMS '95 on New Macromolecular Architectures and Functions. The topics are hot at present and are of interest to scientists and graduate students in the area of polymer chemistry and biopolymers at universities as well as in the industry. Table of Contents: Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization Including Degenerative Transfer: Novel and General Pathways Towards Living /Controlled Radical Polymerization.- Living Radical Polymerization via Reversible Homolytic Activation of Carbon-Halogen Bonds with Metal Complexes.- Molecular Information and Its Expression by Oligomeric Carbon-Chain Compounds; What Steroidal Molecules Tell Us.- Stereospecific Living Polymerization of Methacrylate with Binary Initiator Systems.- Single Site Polymerizations of Ethylene and 1-Olefins Catalyzed by Rare Earth Metal Complexes.- Non-Conjugated and Conjugated Dienes in Acyclic Diene Metathesis (ADMET) Chemistry.- Design and Synthesis of New Substituted Polyacetylenes.- Precursor Method for Polymeric LB Films.- Polyethyleneimine Derivatives as Nucleic Acid Model and Interaction with DNA.- Helical Polymers: Synthesis, Conformation, and Function.- The Dendritic Box; Synthesis, Properties, and Applications.- New Macromolecular Architectures and Functions Through Macromolecular Recognition by Cyclodextrins.- Novel Unimolecular Micelles of Hydrophobically Modified Polyelectrolytes: Synthesis, Characterization, and Functions.- Optical Characterization of Ultrathin Polymer Films Prepared by the Langmuir-Blodgett Technique.- Excited State Electron Transfer from Polyelectrolyte-Bound Chromophores.- Chemical Functions of NH S Hydrogen Bonds in Model Complexes of Iron-Sulfur Metalloproteins.- Genetically Expressed Monodisperse ? Helical Polypeptides.- Enzymatic Synthesis of Polysaccharides: A New Concept in Polymerization Chemistry.- Self Assembling Organic Nanotubes.- Development of a Rapid and Facile Method for Protein Synthesis Using Partially Protected Peptide Thioesters as Building Blocks.- Molecular Weight Dependent Antimicrobial Activity by Chitosan."Publisher Marketing: This volume summarizes the papers presented at the second Osaka University Macromolecular Symposium OUMS '95 on "New Macromolecular Architecture and Functions" which was held at Senri Life Science Center, Osaka, Japan, on June 2 through June 5, 1995. The symposium covered the three topics, (1) Controlled Polymerizations, (2) Macromolecular Organized Systems and (3) Biomimetic Polymers, and invited leading scientists in these fields. At present, any of these topics is a hot issue in itself and frequently taken up separately on many occasions. It is noted, however, that all these topics are correlated with each other with the keyword "molecular design of new types of polymers" and their combination provides a unique feature of the present symposium in reflecting the interactions among investigators working in these important fields with the common ground expressed by the keyword "molecular design of new types of polymers." Twenty five invited lectures and twenty nine posters were presented at the Symposium, and twenty of the lectures contribute to this volume. In the first topic, preparations of sequentially of stereoregularly controlled polymers were discussed from the view points of precise design of polymer preparation on the molecular level; attention was paid to a possibility of living radical polymerization, preparations of new types of living polymers, recent advances in preparation of stereospecific living polymers, sequential control in block copolymers, and molecular design of initiators and/or catalysts for the controlled polymerizations.