Chain copolymerization Bernoullian

In many copolymerizations growth is influenced by the terminal (active) monomer unit. This can be described by Markov trials Zero order (or Bernoullian mechanism) means that the terminal unit of the growing chain does not influence the addition (rate, stereoregularity, etc.) of the next monomer molecule. Such copolymerizations often are called random . 

Conditional probabilities can then be used to calculate structural features of the copolymers or to evaluate statistical features of the copolymerization mechanism. If terms such as P(A), P(AA), and P(ABA) are used to represent unconditional probabilities of finding monomer xmits, dyads, triads, etc. in the polymer chain, and if terms such as P(A/A), P(A/AB) and P(b/BBB) are used to represent conditional probabilities that A or B xmits follow other monomer xmits or monomer sequences in the copolymer chain, a copolymer can be considered to obey Bernoullian statistics if P(a) = P(A/a) =... 

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