Wednesday, 20 October 2004: 8:30 AM-12:00 PM

Peoria-Illinois-Lincoln (Pere Marquette)

POLY: Polymers, Polymeric Materials and General Organic

Polymers are very versatile materials. Light, malleable and possessing chemical and physical properties that can be modified, polymeric materials are used in a wide variety of applications. Symposium will focus on design, synthesis, modification, evaluation, and application of polymeric materials.
Organizer:Sevim Erhan
Presider:Sevim Erhan
8:30 AM Welcoming Remarks
8:50 AM Study on Viscoelastic and Energy Absorbing Properties of Epoxizided Soybean Oil Properties
Zengshe S. Liu, Sevim Z. Erhan
9:10 AM Comparison of Molecular Weight Distributions of Starch-graft-poly(acrylamide) Produced by Batch Reaction and Reaction Extrusion
Jared D. Parsons, J.L. Willett, Victoria Finkenstadt
9:30 AM Break
9:50 AM Dicsovery of New Bioactive Natural Products from Plants and Marine Organisms
Athar Ata
10:10 AM Bolaamphiphilic Rotaxanes Using Phosphodiesters as Stopper Groups
Christopher C. Forbes, Bradley D. Smith
10:30 AM Demonstration of o-Iodoxybenzoic Acid (IBX) as a Catalytic Reagent in Presence of a Co-Oxidant
Thottumkara K. Vinod, Arun P. Thottumkara
10:50 AM Reaction Mechanism of Condensation Homopolymerization
Raslan AL-ANEZI, Abdul Rehman Khan

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