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Prepolymer capable of entering into further polymerization or other reactions through its reactive end-groups.
Note:
Reactive end-groups in telechelic polymers come from initiator or termination or chain-transfer agents in chain polymerizations, but not from monomer(s) as in polycondensations and polyadditions.
Source:
PAC, 2004, 76, 889. (Definitions of terms relating to reactions of polymers and to functional polymeric materials (IUPAC Recommendations 2003)) on page 898 [Terms] [Paper]