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Polyvinyl Chloride

Known as: Ethene, chloro-, homopolymer, Vinyl Chloride Polymer, Polychloroethylene 
A polyvinyl resin used extensively in the manufacture of plastics, including medical devices, tubing, and other packaging. It is also used as a… 
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Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
HYPERBRANCHED NANOMOLECULES: REGULAR POLYSTYRENE DENDRIGRAFTS
Arborescent graft polystyrenes were prepared by the “graft on graft” technique, involving the iterative grafting of end… 
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Photo‐oxidation of electroluminescent polymers studied by core‐level photoabsorption spectroscopy
The C 1s and O 1s core‐level photoabsorption spectra of poly[2‐methoxy,5‐(2′‐ethyl‐ hexoxy)‐1,4‐phenylene vinylene] (MEH‐PPV… 
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
Photodynamic antitumor agents: beta-methoxyethyl groups give access to functionalized porphycenes and enhance cellular uptake and activity.
Porphycene photosensitizers bearing two or four methoxyethyl side chains were synthesized in nine steps from commercially… 
Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
Synthesis of functionalized styrenes via palladium-catalyzed coupling of aryl bromides with vinyl tin reagents
Copulation entre le (tributylvinyl) stannane et des bromoethers, bromoaldehydes, bromocetones et des composes dibromes… 
Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
Modification of chromium(VI)-induced DNA damage by glutathione and cytochromes P-450 in chicken embryo hepatocytes.
The role of glutathione and cytochrome P-450 in the production of DNA damage by chromium(VI) was examined in chicken embryo… 
Highly Cited
1983
Highly Cited
1983
Polymer composites of rigid and flexible molecules
Abstract 
Highly Cited
1980
Highly Cited
1980
Carcinogenicity of chloroethylene oxide, an ultimate reactive metabolite of vinyl chloride, and bis(chloromethyl)ether after subcutaneous administration and in initiation-promotion experiments in…
Repeated s.c. administration of chloroethylene oxide, a reactive metabolite of the carcinogen vinyl chloride, induced local… 
Highly Cited
1979
Highly Cited
1979
Selenium stabilized carbanions. Preparation of .alpha.-lithio selenides and applications to the synthesis of olefins by reductive elimination of .beta.-hydroxy selenides and selenoxide syn…
The deprotonation of several alkyl aryl selenides with lithium amide bases has been studied. The kinetic acidity of methyl m… 
Highly Cited
1978
Highly Cited
1978
Platelet storage at 22 degrees C: effect of type of agitation on morphology, viability, and function in vitro
Recovery in vivo after 51Cr labeling, platelet morphology, and platelet aggregation were studied with platelet concentrates (PC… 
Highly Cited
1963
Highly Cited
1963
Chromosome duplication and structure as determined by autoradiography.
*'The authors are indebted to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission for financial support of this investigation. 1 Kohlschuetter, V…