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The Development of Polysulfone and Other Polyarylethers

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High Performance Polymers: Their Origin and Development

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Nucleophilic displacement chemistry involving aromatic dihalides and bisphenols, represented the first means by which high molecular weight aromatic polyethers could be produced. This technology has since been the basis for all commercial processes developed for this family of Engineering Polymers. The preparative method involves the nucleophilic polycondensation of a bisphenol salt with an activated aromatic dihalide in an aprotic solvent. Further investigations have shown that the method has a very wide scope and that it can be applied to the preparation of a host of aromatic poly (sulfone ethers), poly (ketone ethers) and other related polyethers.

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  1. Union Carbide Corporation, Bound Brook, NJ, USA

    R. A. Clendinning, A. G. Farnham & R. N. Johnson

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  1. University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, USA

    Raymond B. Seymour

  2. Celanese Engineering Resins, Chatham, New Jersey, USA

    Gerald S. Kirshenbaum

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Clendinning, R.A., Farnham, A.G., Johnson, R.N. (1986). The Development of Polysulfone and Other Polyarylethers. In: Seymour, R.B., Kirshenbaum, G.S. (eds) High Performance Polymers: Their Origin and Development. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7073-4_15

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