Explore: Alternating Copolymers

single main chain and include alternating copolymers, statistical copolymers, and block copolymers. Branched copolymers consist of a single main chain

temperatures. Copolymers are classified either as statistical copolymers, alternating copolymers, block copolymers, graft copolymers or gradient copolymers. In

monomers, which polymerize one after the other, they are classed as alternating copolymers. Both the isocyanates and polyols used to make a polyurethane contain

figure below. While there exist others (alternating copolymers, graft copolymers, and stereoblock copolymers), these three are more common in the scientific

with a diamine to form an alternating copolymer form of nylon. nylons – types of polyamides, some are alternating copolymers formed from copolymerizing

ECTFE (ethylene-chlorotrifluoroethylene) is an alternating copolymer of ethylene and chlorotrifluoroethylene. It is a semi-crystalline fluoropolymer (a

reacts with styrene. Maleic anhydride and styrene are known to form alternating copolymers, and are in fact the textbook case of this phenomenon. This is one

Shin'ichi; Ogiwara, Naoto; Ishizone, Takashi (2006). "Formation of Alternating Copolymers via Spontaneous Copolymerization of 1,3-Dehydroadamantane with Electron-Deficient

functional capabilities, including cyclic olefins, alternating copolymers, and multiblock copolymers. Using catalysts allows chemists to speed up chemical

September 2018). "Incorporation of Large Cycloalkene Rings into Alternating Copolymers Allows Control of Glass Transition and Hydrophobicity". ACS Macro