Transport Polymerization of Gaseous Intermediates and Polymer Crystals Growth

Man is always enchanted with discoveries of new and better ways of making things. Even after more than a hundred years of synthetic chemistry, scientists are today still as enthusiastic as ever looking for “novel” reactions and “novel” syntheses. One of the great achievements of the last decade was the development and usage of “intermediates” for syntheses. Knowing the extensive applications [1-4] of these intermediates in modern synthetic chemistry, it is, however, surprising to find that only few groups of these intermediates have been used in polymer syntheses. For instance [5], even though there are radical polymerizations and polymerizations involving carbanions and carbonium ions, there are practically no polymer syntheses using benzynes [2], carbenes [3], or nitrenes [4].