Edwin J. Vandenberg
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American polymer chemist
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Chemistry
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#1872
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#475
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Polymer Chemistry
#34
World Rank
#37
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Edwin J. Vandenberg's Degrees
- Bachelors Chemistry University of California, Berkeley
- PhD Polymer Chemistry Stanford University
Why Is Edwin J. Vandenberg Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Edwin J. Vandenberg was a chemist at Hercules Inc. and a researcher at Arizona State University. Vandenberg is best known for his work at Hercules in the 1950s through the 1970s that included the independent discovery of isotactic polypropylene and the development of Ziegler-type catalysts.
Edwin J. Vandenberg's Published Works
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Published Works
- Contemporary Topics in Polymer Science (1984) (371)
- Epoxide polymers: Synthesis, stereochemistry, structure, and mechanism (1969) (105)
- Organometallic catalysts for polymerizing monosubstituted epoxides (1960) (100)
- Polymerization of glycidol and its derivatives: A new rearrangement polymerization (1985) (84)
- Polymer reactions. III. Structure of polypropylene hydroperoxide (1968) (78)
- A New, Crystalline High Melting Bis(hydroxymethyl)polycarbonate and Its Acetone Ketal for Biomaterial Applications (1999) (60)
- The synthesis and solution properties of some rigid‐chain, water‐soluble polymers: Poly[N,N′‐(sulfo‐phenylene)phthalamide]s and poly[N,N′‐(sulfo‐p‐phenylene)pyromellitimide] (1989) (32)
- Crystalline vinyl ether polymers (1959) (30)
- Poly[3,3‐bis(hydroxymethyl) oxetane]—an analog of cellulose: Synthesis, characterization, and properties (1989) (30)
- CRYSTALLINE POLYMERS OF THE 2,3-EPOXYBUTANES—STRUCTURE AND MECHANISM ASPECTS (1961) (28)
- Poly(3-hydroxyoxetane)―An analog of poly(vinyl alcohol): synthesis, characterization, and properties (1989) (27)
- Some mechanism aspects of epoxide polymerization. Stereochemical structure of the crystalline polymers from the 2,3-epoxybutanes (1964) (24)
- Mechanism aspects of th e ring‐opening polymerization of the episulfides compared to epoxides (1972) (23)
- Initiation of Polymerization (1983) (21)
- Transition metals and organometallics as catalysts for olefin polymerization, by W. Kaminsky and H. Sinn, eds., Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1988, 442 pp. (1989) (21)
- High polymers from symmetrical disubstituted epoxides (1960) (21)
- A New Class of Polyethers-Poly(1,4-Dichloro-2,3-Epoxybutane)s - Synthesis, Mechanism and Property Aspects (1976) (18)
- Catalysis in polymer synthesis (1992) (16)
- Cumene Hydroperoxide in Redox Emulsion Polymerization (1948) (13)
- Coordination copolymerization of tetrahydrofuran and oxepane with oxetanes and epoxides (1991) (10)
- Some aspects of the bimetallic μ‐oxo‐alkoxides for polymerizing epoxides to polyether elastomers (1986) (9)
- Catalysis: A Key to Advances in Applied Polymer Science (1992) (7)
- The stereoregular polymerization of vinyl ethers with transition metal catalysts (2007) (7)
- Base cleavage of epichlorohydrin polymers (1972) (7)
- Award address: Reflections on 50 years of polymer chemistry (1994) (6)
- Poly(2,3-epoxybutanes) and Poly(1,4-dichloro-2,3-epoxybutanes): Microstructure and Mechanism of Polymerization Studied by Carbon-13 Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (1979) (6)
- Isomorphism in the poly(3,3‐bis‐hydroxymethyloxetane) family and copolymers: Poly (3,3‐bis‐hydroxymethyloxetane‐co‐3‐methyl‐3‐hydroxymethyloxetane) (1994) (6)
- Ring‐opening polymerization of ethylene organophosphorothioates: Stereoregular polymerization involving asymmetry at phosphorus (1971) (5)
- Polyethers : a symposium sponsored by the Division of Polymer Chemistry at the 167th meeting of the American Chemical Society, Los Angeles, Calif., April 2, 1974 (1975) (5)
- Synthesis and properties of poly(cis‐1,4‐dihydroxy‐2,3‐epoxybutane) (1985) (5)
- Aromaticity: A Key to Polymers Stable at High Temperatures. (1963) (4)
- Coordination Polymerization of Trimethylene Oxide (1975) (4)
- Organolithium cleavage of aliphatic polyethers, polysulfides and polyimines (1972) (3)
- Discovery and Development of Epichlorohydrin Elastomers (1982) (3)
- Polyethers with Reactive Side Chains—Hydroxy Polyethers (1985) (3)
- Gas transport properties of poly(3-hydroxyoxetane) (1993) (2)
- Early Polyolefin Synthesis with Ziegler Catalysis (1986) (1)
- Reflections on the Past and Future of Polyether Elastomers and on Redox Emulsion Polymerization (1991) (1)
- Synthesis, mechanism, and property aspects of a new class of polyethers: Poly(1,4-dichloro-2,3-epoxybutane)s (1975) (1)
- A process for the preparation of grafted polymers (1953) (0)
- The Research Chemist Looks at Supervision (1958) (0)
- Polymer and copolymer of 3-hydroxyoxetane, and derivatives thereof (1989) (0)
- Synthetic Polymers as Analogs of Polysaccharides (1988) (0)
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