Posted by Larry Hoover on October 23, 2003, at 22:51:28
In reply to study help with chemistry!, posted by ace on October 23, 2003, at 21:27:36
> Any chem scholars out there!?
Ya, but this one shouldn't answer posts half an hour after he's taken his sleep meds.
> Can anyone recommend me a good site on polymerization- I have searched the net heaps but am yet to find one!
http://www.psrc.usm.edu/macrog/synth.htm
> Condensation polymers are what I'm focusing on most...Condensation polymers can also yield other H-X byproducts other than water, like HCl. I guess polymer chemists expanded the term used by organic chemists like me.
> BTW, in addition (chain-growth) polymerization only one off the pi bonds (of the double bond) is broken...right? This holds true for EVERY addition polymer?
>
> Ace.An addition polymer is simply a polymer where the whole monomer molecule enters the product. Not all monomers that polymerize have pi bonds. The monomer that goes into nylon doesn't for example.
Lar
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