July 2024
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Step-growth polymerization refers to a type of polymerization mechanism in which bifunctional or multifunctional monomers react to form first dimers, then trimers, longer oligomers, and eventually long-chain polymers (Figure 212.1).
IUPAC has deprecated the term step-growth polymerization and recommends use of the terms polyaddition, when the propagation steps are addition reactions and no molecules are evolved during these steps, and polycondensation, when the propagation steps are condensation reactions and molecules are evolved during these steps.
The first synthetic polymeric material, Bakelite, was announced by Leo Baekeland in 1907, through a typical step-growth polymerization ...
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