Direct and indirect functionalization of polypropylene

✍ Scribed by Alain Guyot

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 545 KB
• Volume: 7
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1042-7147
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1581(199602)7:2<61::aid-pat449>3.0.co;2-u

✦ Synopsis

Polypropylene is the polymer with the fastest-growing usage rate, owing to its low price combined with properties that have been improved over recent years. However, because it does not carry any functional groups, it has little interaction with useful components of many systems, and it is difficult to paint.

Recently, a certain number of attempts have been made to modify this polymer, either through direct copolymerization with reactive monomers, or after chemical modification of the polymer itself or some of its copolymers. The paper is a review of these different approaches, with emphasis on two points: (a) the new possibilities offered by the metallocene family of catalysts and (b), the work carried out in the author's laboratory, based on various functionalizations of copolymers of propylene and dienes.