The aim of Introduction to Polymer Analysis is to familiarize the reader with all aspects of plastic analysis. The book covers the analysis of the main types of plastics now in use commercially.

Introduction to Polymer Analysis  gives an up-to-date and thorough exposition of the present state of the art of polymer analysis and, as such, will be of great interest to all those engaged in this subject in industry, university research establishment and general education. It is also intended for undergraduate and graduate chemistry students and those taking courses in plastics technology, engineering chemistry, materials science and industrial chemistry.

Introduction to Polymer Analysis will be a useful reference work for manufacturers and users of plastics, the food and beverage packing industry, the engineering plastics industry, plastic components manufacturers, and those concerned with pharmaceuticals and cosmetics.

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Table of Contents 
1. Types and Properties of Polymers
2. Determination of Elements (Sample Chapter, click on link above)
3. Functional Groups
4. Determination of Monomer Ratios in Copolymers
5. Sequencing of Monomer Unit in Polymers
6. Stereoisomerism and Tacticity
7. Regioisomerism
8. Determination of End Groups
9. Types of Unsaturation
10. Polymer Branching
11. Block Copolymers

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About the Author
Roy Crompton, currently a consultant in the field of analytical chemistry, retired in 1988 and has since written extensively on this subject, with many books published to date. Prior to his retirement Roy was Head of the Polymer analysis research department of a major international polymer producer for some 15 years. In the early fifties he was heavily engaged in analysis method development for low-pressure polyolefins produces by the Ziegler-Natta route. He was responsible for the development of thin-layer chromatography for the determination of various types of additives in polymers and did pioneering work on the use of TLC to separate polymer additives and to examine the separated additives by infrared and mass spectrometry.