Prospects of elementorganic polymer chemistry and technology

As far as the manufacture of elementorganic monomers and polymers is concerned, we can highlight the following features. 

great variety of technological processes for their synthesis  

corrosive synthesis environment and hence rigid requirements to the choice of equipment  

often relatively small tonnage of the product and hence the periodic synthesis of some elementorganic compounds, which raises the costs  

wide range of products (e.g. Dow Coming alone manufactures about 2500 different silicone monomers, oligomers and polymers)  

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