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Cyclic Hydrocarbons with Side Chains. Hydrocarbons composed of cyclic and aliphatic chains are named in a manner that is the simplest permissible or the most appropriate for the chemical intent. Hydrocarbons containing several chains attached to one cyclic nucleus are generally named as derivatives of the cyclic compound, and compounds containing several side chains and/or cyclic radicals attached to one chain are named as derivatives of the acyclic compound. Examples are... 

Alternatively one chain radical may abstract a proton from the penultimate carbon atom of the other, giving one saturated and one unsaturated dead chain ... 

The superimposition of diffraction spots from both phases gives the previously reported pattern that was thought to require an eight-chain unit cell. In the la stmcture, because of its one-chain unit cell, all chains must have parallel packing. Since the la and ip stmctures exist in the same microfibril of cellulose, the chains in the ip stmcture should also be parallel. 

One chain-end is typically unsaturated due to chain transfer and termination mechanisms. Mol wts can range from several hundred to several million. There is no long-chain branching unless special synthesis methods ate employed. The mol wt distribution is commonly the most probable,... 

Protein molecules that have only one chain are called monomeric proteins. But a fairly large number of proteins have a quaternary structure, which consists of several identical polypeptide chains (subunits) that associate into a multimeric molecule in a specific way. These subunits can function either independently of each other or cooperatively so that the function of one subunit is dependent on the functional state of other subunits. Other protein molecules are assembled from several different subunits with different functions for example, RNA polymerase from E. coli contains five different polypeptide chains. 

Figure 2.16 illustrates some possible ways in which two monomers A and B can be combined together in one chain. 

In the case of polar polymers the situation is more complex, since there are a large number of dipoles attached to one chain. These dipoles may either be attached to the main chain (as with poly(vinyl chloride), polyesters and polycarbonates) or the polar groups may not be directly attached to the main chain and the dipoles may, to some extent, rotate independently of it, e.g. as with poly(methyl methacrylate). 

In Section 4.2.2 the central role of atomic diffusion in many aspects of materials science was underlined. This is equally true for polymers, but the nature of diffusion is quite different in these materials, because polymer chains get mutually entangled and one chain cannot cross another. An important aspect of viscoelastic behavior of polymer melts is memory such a material can be deformed by hundreds of per cent and still recover its original shape almost completely if the stress is removed after a short time (Ferry 1980). This underlies the use of shrink-fit cling-film in supermarkets. On the other hand, because of diffusion, if the original stress is maintained for a long time, the memory of the original shape fades. 

The DNA isolated from different cells and viruses characteristically consists of two polynucleotide strands wound together to form a long, slender, helical molecule, the DNA double helix. The strands run in opposite directions that is, they are antiparallel and are held together in the double helical structure through interchain hydrogen bonds (Eigure 11.19). These H bonds pair the bases of nucleotides in one chain to complementary bases in the other, a phenomenon called base pairing. 

Human and horse insulin both have two polypeptide chains, with one chain containing 21 amino acids and the other containing30 amino acids. They differ in primary structure at two places. At position 9 in one chain, human insulin has Ser and horse insulin has Gly at position 30 in the other chain, human insulin has Thr and horse insulin has Ala. How must the DNA for the two insulins differ ... 

The elasticity of nylon fibers is due in part to hydrogen bonds between adjacent polymer chains. These hydrogen bonds join carbonyl oxygen atoms on one chain to NH groups on adjacent chains (Figure 23.4). 

Even though the rate of radical-radical reaction is determined by diffusion, this docs not mean there is no selectivity in the termination step. As with small radicals (Section 2.5), self-reaction may occur by combination or disproportionation. In some cases, there are multiple pathways for combination and disproportionation. Combination involves the coupling of two radicals (Scheme 5.1). The resulting polymer chain has a molecular weight equal to the sum of the molecular weights of the reactant species. If all chains are formed from initiator-derived radicals, then the combination product will have two initiator-derived ends. Disproportionation involves the transfer of a P-hydrogen from one propagating radical to the other. This results in the formation of two polymer molecules. Both chains have one initiator-derived end. One chain has an unsaturated end, the other has a saturated end (Scheme 5.1). 

In the very first model of molecular orientation in flow, Kuhn and Kuhn [2] depicted the polymer as having one chain end anchored in space (Fig. 39). In... 

Besides crystalline order and structure, the chain conformation and segment orientation of polymer molecules in the vicinity of the surface are also expected to be modified due to the specific interaction and boundary condition at the surface between polymers and air (Fig. 1 a). According to detailed computer simulations [127, 128], the chain conformation at the free polymer surface is disturbed over a distance corresponding approximately to the radius of gyration of one chain. The chain segments in the outermost layers are expected to be oriented parallel to the surface and chain ends will be enriched at the surface. Experiments on the chain conformation in this region are not available, but might be feasible with evanescent wave techniques described previously. Surface structure on a micrometer scale is observed with IR-ATR techniques [129],... 

These four types of forces are responsible for the adaptive behavior of smart gels. The different forces come into play when the network of polymer chains composing a gel is disturbed, (a) Charged ionic regions can attract or repel each other, (b) Nonpolar hydrophobic regions exclude water, (c) Hydrogen bonds may form from one chain to another, (d) Dipole-dipole interactions can attract or repel chains. 

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