A polymer composed of
regular macromolecules,
regular star macromolecules or
regular comb macromolecules. A polymer consisting of star macromolecules with arms identical with respect to
constitution and
degree of polymerization is considered to be regular;
See: star macromolecule, [note 2].
Analogously, a polymer consisting of comb macromolecules with the sub-chains between
the branch points of the main chain and the terminal sub-chains of the main chain
identical with respect to
constitution and
degree of polymerization and the side-chains identical with respect to
constitution and
degree of polymerization is considered to be regular;
See: comb macromolecule, [note 1].
Source:
PAC, 1996, 68, 2287
(Glossary of basic terms in polymer science (IUPAC Recommendations 1996))
on page 2302
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IUPAC. Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 2nd ed. (the "Gold Book"). Compiled by
A. D. McNaught and A. Wilkinson. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford (1997).
XML on-line corrected version: http://goldbook.iupac.org (2006-) created by M. Nic,
J. Jirat, B. Kosata; updates compiled by A. Jenkins. ISBN 0-9678550-9-8.
https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.
