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Offline mandy9008

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polymer reaction
« on: November 16, 2009, 10:56:35 AM »
I need the monomer(s) used to prepare the polymer in the attached picture; i am not even sure where to begin

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Re: polymer reaction
« Reply #1 on: November 16, 2009, 11:33:03 AM »
Bottom part - where the 'poly' chain is drawn - is obviously product of the vinyl polymerization. Drawing monomer is not that difficult - just put double bond where it was before polymerization.
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Re: polymer reaction
« Reply #2 on: November 16, 2009, 01:45:40 PM »
start with the name of the monomer - ethyl acrylate

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