https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.P04720
A
polymerization
in which the growth of polymer chains
proceeds by addition reactions between molecules of all degrees of polymerization
.Notes:
- The growth steps are expressed by:
where and denote chains of degrees ofpolymerization and , respectively. - The earlier term 'addition polymerization' embraced both the current concepts of 'polyaddition' and 'chain polymerization', but did not include 'condensative chain polymerization'.