oligomerization
The process of converting a
monomer
or a mixture of monomers into an
oligomer
. An oligomerization by
chain reaction
carried out in the presence of a large amount of
chain-transfer
agent, so that the
end-groups
are essentially fragments of the
chain transfer
agent, is termed
telomerization
.
Source:
PAC, 1996,
68
, 2287
(Glossary of basic terms in polymer science (IUPAC Recommendations 1996))
on page 2306