Polymer that exhibits catalytic activity.
Notes:
- Certain synthetic polymer catalysts can behave like enzymes.
- Poly(4-vinylpyridine) in its basic form, and sulfonated polystyrene in its acid form,
are examples of polymers that can act as catalysts in some base- and acid-catalyzed
reactions, respectively.
Source:
PAC, 2004, 76, 889
(Definitions of terms relating to reactions of polymers and to functional polymeric
materials (IUPAC Recommendations 2003))
on page 896
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A. D. McNaught and A. Wilkinson. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford (1997).
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J. Jirat, B. Kosata; updates compiled by A. Jenkins. ISBN 0-9678550-9-8.
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