I— Group Transfer Polymerization.- Recent advances in the controlled synthesis of acrylic polymers by group transfer polymerization.- Kinetics of group transfer polymerization.- Group transfer polymerization of methyl methacrylate with basic catalysts.- The mechanism of nucleophilic activation at silicon.- Aldol GTP in controlled synthesis of vinyl alcohol polymers.- Report of discussions and recommendations.- II -Stability of Active Centers in Polymerization.- Controlled synthesis of various poly(alkyl methacrylates) by anionic techniques.- The anionic polymerization of alkyl acrylates:a challenge.- Stability of active centres in polymerization: methods of study of short-lived active centres.- Living cationic olefin polymerization.- Living and ‘immmortal’ polymerizations of epoxide with metalloporphyrin catalyst.- From anionic to Ziegler-Natta polymerization: application to the determination of the reactivity of Ziegler-Natta active centers.- Report of discussions and recommendations.- III — Catalysis of Polycondensation Reactions.- Novel polycondensation system for the synthesis of polyamides and polyesters.- Recent progress in the use of phase transfer catalysis for polycondensation reactions. Application to the preparation of polyethers, polycarbonates and polyesters.- Synthesis of polyaryletherketones.- Electrochemical reductive polycondensation of dibromoaromatic derivatives into poly (1,4-phenylene).- Polymerization of reactive telechelic oligomers. Formation of thermostable networks.- Report of discussions and recommendations.- IV — Polymerizations in Organised Medium.- Polymerization in inclusion compounds.- Radical polymerization along macromolecular templates.- Formation of polymers of ß-hydroxybutyric acid in bacterial cells and a comparison of the morphology of growth with the formation of polyethylene in the solid state.- Additional report.- Polymerized vesicles.- Polymerization of acrylamide in inverse emulsion.- Report of discussions and recommendations.- V — Carbenes and Polymerization.- Metal carbene complexes in polymer synthesis.- The role of carbene complexes in the Phillips olefin polymerization (surface compounds of transition metals, Part XXXI(1)).- Stereochemistry and intermediates in the ring-opening polymerization of norbornene and its derivatives.- Polymerization of alkynes initiated by stable metal carbene complexes.- Report of discussions and recommendations.- VI — Chiral Polymers.- Optically active vinyl polymers with backbone chirality.- Conformational optical activity in polymers.- Chiral thermotropic liquid crystalline polymers: an overview.- Atropisomeric polymers.- Report of discussions and recommendations.- VII — Polymerizations by Coordination Catalysts.- Some aspects of the polymerization of olefins with high activity heterogeneous catalysts.- Molecular weight distribution in Ziegler-Natta olefin polymerization.- Stereospecific polymerization of olefins with homogeneous catalysts.- The migratory catalyst : ?-olefin polymerization by 2, ?-linkage.- Nickel catalysts for ethylene homo- and copolymerization.- Pending questions in coordination polymerization of diolefins.- Report of discussions and recommendations.- List of Contributors.
