Polymers regular, single-strand, organic

A Macromolecular Division of lUPAC was created in 1967, and it created a permanent Commission on Macromolecular Nomenclature, parallel to the other nomenclature commissions. The Commission over the years has issued recommendations on basic definitions, stereochemical definitions and notations, stmcture-based nomenclature for regular single-strand organic polymers and regular single-strand and quasisingle-strand inorganic and coordination polymers, source-based nomenclature for copolymers, and abbreviations for polymers. AH of these are coUected in a compendium referred to as the lUPAC Purple Book (99). 

IUPAC Commission on Macromolecular Nomenclature, Nomenclature of regular single-strand organic polymers (Recommendations 1975), Pure Appl. Chem., 48, 373-385 (1976) Compendium of Macromolecular Nomenclature , Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford, p.91 (1991). 

Nomenclature of Regular Single-Strand Organic Polymers... 

The rules of structure-based nomenclature of regular single-strand organic polymers are of fundamental importance in polymer nomenclature. The names of other kinds of polymers such as double-strand [7] and irregular polymers [8] are based on the principles given in this Report. 

In 1976, the lUPAC Commission on Macromolecular Nomenclature published rules on the nomenclature of regular single-strand organic polymers. These were later revised [1]. A regular single-strand polymer is one which can be described by constitutional repeating units with only two terminals composed of one atom each. 

Alternating sequence arrangements can form constitutionally regular structures and may, in those cases, also be named utilizing the structure-based nomenclature for regular single-strand organic polymers. The example above would be then named... 

Most trivial names, such as polystyrene, are source-based names. Hitherto, the Commission has not systematically recommended source-based names for homopolymers because it considered that the more rigorous structure-based names were more appropriate for scientific communications. However, since the publication of Nomenclature of Regular Single-Strand Organic Polymers in 1976, scientists, in both industry and academia, have continued to use trivial names. Even the Commission itself adopted (1985) a source-based nomenclature for copolymers because of its simplicity and practicality. Based on these facts, the Commission has now decided to recommend source-based... 

Nomenclature of regular single-strand organic polymers (lUPAC Recommendations 2002), PureAppl. Chem. 74, 1921-1956 (2002). Reprinted as Chapter 15, this edition. 

International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Nomenclature of Regular Single-Strand Organic Polymers (Recommendations 1975),... 

Staudinger H (1920) Ober Polymerisation. Ber53 1073-1085. lUPAC Commission on Macromolecular Nomenclature (1976) Nomenclatureof Regular Single-stranded Organic Polymers. Pure Appl Chem 48 375-385 (1985) Source-based Nomenclature for Copolymers. Ibid 57 1427-1440. 

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