Polymer compounds nomenclature

Polymer compounds can be named according to the systematic nomenclature or the traditional nomenclature. 

Isopropyl group (Section 2 13) The group (CH3)2CH— Isotactic polymer (Section 7 15) A stereoregular polymer in which the substituent at each successive chirality center is on the same side of the zigzag carbon chain Isotopic cluster (Section 13 22) In mass spectrometry a group of peaks that differ in m/z because they incorporate differ ent isotopes of their component elements lUPAC nomenclature (Section 2 11) The most widely used method of naming organic compounds It uses a set of rules proposed and periodically revised by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry... 

Before discussing the chemistry and technology of silicone polymers it is necessary to consider the methods of nomenclature of the silicon compounds relevant to this chapter. The terminology used will be that adopted by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. 

Despite the Commission s long-standing position, the scientific community has continued to use source-based nomenclature for homopolymers such as polystyrene and poly(vinyl acetate) because of their simplicity, convenience and obvious relationship with the monomers from which the homopolymers are prepared. The Commission therefore decided to recommend source-based nomenclature as an alternative official nomenclature for homopolymers in a 2001 publication [2]. Consequently, both source-based and structure-based names are now available for most polymers. The names of monomers in the source-based names may be traditional or semi-systematic, if well established by usage, and not necessarily only those retained in the 1993 A Guide to lUPAC Nomenclature of Organic Compounds [3]. 

Polymer nomenclature leaves much to be desired. A standard nomenclature system based on chemical structure as is used for small inorganic and organic compounds is most desired. 

Other names are retained for referring to unsubstituted compounds only. Compounds derived from them by substitution must be named systematically. The names are retained because of their wide use in biochemical and in polymer nomenclature. A few examples are given here. 

The conformational statistics of asymmetric vinyl chains such as P2VN are well-known 126). The rotational conformers of isotactic (meso) dyads are entirely different from those of syndiotactic (dl) dyads. Frank and Harrah132) have described each of the six distinct conformers for meso and dl dyads, using the t, g+ and g nomenclature of Flory 126). Excimer-forming sites (EFS) are found in the tt and g g+ meso states, and in the degenerate tg , g t dl state. Because the rotational conformers of compounds such as l,3-bis(2-naphthyl)propane do not match those of either the iso-or syndiotactic dyads of P2VN, the propane compounds make poor models of aryl vinyl polymers. However, the rate constants of fluorescence and decay of the intramolecular excimer in polymers can usually be determined from the propane compounds (but see the exceptional case of PVK and its models133)). 

Polynuclear inorganic compounds exist in a bewildering array of structural types, such as ionic solids, molecular polymers, extended assemblies of oxounions both of metals and nonmeinis, nonmetal chains and rings, bridged melui complexes, and homo- and hetero-nuclcar clusters. This section treats primarily the nomenclature of bridged metal complexes and homo- and hetero-nuclear dusters. 

Major advances and problems in the field of synthesis, properties, structure and applications of polymers containing metallochelate units are discussed. Included are terminology, classification and nomenclature of these compounds as well as major approaches to calculating the equilibrium constants of chelation with polymeric ligands and chelate effect in metallopolymeric systems. Special attention is paid to the production and structural features of polymers containing metallochelate units. The most important applications of such polymers are classified... 

The nomenclature of PCMU is based on that developed for complex compounds [23] with a prefix poly being added to the name of the corresponding substance. Thus polymers 3 and 4 are termed poly copper(II) p-vinylbenzoylacetonate [24] and poly palladium(II) dioximate [25], respectively ... 

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