The course covers modern methods of polymer synthesis both in theory and practice on a high level. It should enable to develop reasonable synthesis schemes for certain target structures and also to predict how a given macromolecule could possibly organize into a secondary or tertiary structure.

Chain-growth polymerizations (anionic, cationic, Ziegler/Natta, ROMP, radical, NMP, ATRP, RAFT), mechanistic details, recent developments, and important examples.