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polyaddition

A polymerization in which the growth of polymer chains proceeds by addition reactions between molecules of all degrees of polymerization.
Notes:
  1. The growth steps are expressed by:
    P x + P y → P x + y { x } ∈ { 1 , 2 , ... ∞ } ; { y } ∈ { 1 , 2 , ... ∞ }
    where P x and P y denote chains of degrees of polymerization x and y, respectively.
  2. The earlier term 'addition polymerization' embraced both the current concepts of 'polyaddition' and 'chain polymerization', but did not include 'condensative chain polymerization'.
Source:
PAC, 1996, 68, 2287 (Glossary of basic terms in polymer science (IUPAC Recommendations 1996)) on page 2307
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IUPAC. Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 2nd ed. (the "Gold Book"). Compiled by A. D. McNaught and A. Wilkinson. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford (1997). XML on-line corrected version: http://goldbook.iupac.org (2006-) created by M. Nic, J. Jirat, B. Kosata; updates compiled by A. Jenkins. ISBN 0-9678550-9-8. doi:10.1351/goldbook.
Last update: 2009-09-07; version: 2.1.5.
DOI of this term: doi:10.1351/goldbook.P04720.
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