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Stereospecific Polymerization

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Stereoselective polymerization

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IUPAC recommendations have defined stereospecific polymerization and related terms as follows [1–3]: “Stereospecific polymerization is polymerization in which a tactic polymer is formed. Tactic polymer is composed of tactic macromolecules. A tactic macromolecule is a regular macromolecule, in which essentially all the configurational repeating units are identical. A configurational repeating unit having defined configuration at all sites of stereoisomerism in the main chain is a stereorepeating unit. Stereoregular polymer is composed of stereoregular macromolecule that is a regular macromolecule essentially comprising only one species of stereorepeating unit. A stereoregular polymer is always a tactic polymer, but a tactic polymer is not always stereoregular because a tactic polymer need not have all sites of stereoisomerism defined.” Consequently, stereospecific polymerization definitely includes polymerization in which a...

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  1. Department of Chemical Science and Technology, Institute of Technology and Science, The University of Tokushima, Minamijosanjima 2-1, Tokushima, 770-8506, Japan

    Tomohiro Hirano

  2. Division of Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, 1-3 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-8531, Japan

    Takehiro Kitaura

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Hirano, T., Kitaura, T. (2014). Stereospecific Polymerization. In: Kobayashi, S., Müllen, K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Polymeric Nanomaterials. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36199-9_216-1

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