paulsutton Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 So having built Polyethylene and Polyethene from molymods I am left with 2 free Carbon bonds which I an use to chain them together. Just tried to build PolyPropene and just have 1 free carbon bond, so I can attach to a 2nd polypropene (included the info graphic for reference above) Am I doing something wrong or does polymerisation work differently for different types of monomers. I am kinda learning as I go along and making blog posts, the end game is to gain a basic understanding of this, enough to help in schools, it just seems interesting what I am finding. After posting an initial video to Peertube ( like you tube but decentralised ) it was suggested I use Molview, this works but I think I am discovering far more about this above with the actual physical building. So am I doing something wrong. I need to look in to this further as putting two polypropene molecules together just looks like there is an Alkane chain of 6 Carbon and 14 Hydrogen C6H14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Cuthber Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 Polyethylene is essentially a long chain alkane. Polypropylene is a long chain alkane with a lot of methyl groups attached to it. Polystyrene is similar, but with a lot of benzene rings stuck to the chain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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