The ideal of living polymerization has defined research in polymer chemistry over the past 50 years. In this Perspective, we present the case that this concept has enabled the treatment of polymers as organic molecules, rather than impure mixtures of species, and allowed the translation of methods developed by synthetic organic chemists into ever more accessible living and/or controlled polymerization methods. The concurrent development of rapid analytical methods for screening new polymerization methods for living characteristics, chiefly size exclusion chromatography, has greatly aided in the expansion of living polymerization methods.

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50周年透视：活性聚合，强调分子在大分子

活性聚合的理想定义了过去50年来对聚合物化学的研究。在这个观点中，我们提出了这样一个案例，即该概念使聚合物能够作为有机分子而不是不纯净的物种混合物来对待，并允许将合成有机化学家开发的方法转化为更容易获得的活性和/或受控聚合方法。 。同时开发快速分析方法以筛选新的聚合活性方法的方法，主要是尺寸排阻色谱法，这极大地促进了活性聚合方法的扩展。