Stereorepeating Unit
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6247-8_11212
n A configurational repeating unit having defined configuration at all sites of stereoisomerism in the main chain of a polymer molecule (IUPAC). In stereoregular polypropylene, the two simplest possible stereorepeating units are: which would be the mers of the corresponding stereoregular polymers, the first being isotactic, the second, syndiotactic.
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