Abstract
Polymers may be produced from monomers by polymerization or from other polymers by the requisite chemical conversions. All syntheses that lead from low-molar-mass molecules (monomers) to high-molar-mass compounds (polymers) are called polymerizations. Polymerizations only occur when the necessary chemical, thermodynamic, and mechanistic conditions are fulfilled.
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Elias, HG. (1984). Polymerizations. In: Macromolecules. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2809-2_1
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