TEC 410 - Polymer Chemistry

three credits
Prerequisites: CHM 151, 152 or CHM 251, 252
The physical and organic chemistry of monomers and polymers, including a consideration of bonding forces, spectroscopic methods of structure determination, structure and property correlations, fractionation, thermodynamics, and methods of molecular weight determination for polymers in solution; the kinetics of condensation and additional polymerization as applied to polymers and copolymers, mechanism of free radical and ionic polymerization, stereospecific polymers, the chemistry of the more common polymers systems, and preparation of their corresponding monomers. Meets with TEC 510. The Textile Chemistry major will not be offered starting Fall 2005, but individual undergraduate and graduate courses will continue to be available to enable students to complete their programs. For requirements, see previous catalogues.