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Structure of polymer

raed2001
in Organic Chemistry

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What would be the structure of the polymer when the monomers, HO-CH2-CH2-OH and HOOC-C6H4-COOH, combine?

I would guess that it would be a condensation chain reaction looking at the monomers. Remove H2O from them and what is left? Might it form an ester of some kind on the back bone with a benzene ring on every other link?

 

idk - but those are my thoughts. I can imagine it alternating rather than being a random/statistical co-polymer, but you would need to know the reactivity ratios of the monomers to know that for sure.

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