Title: telechelic polymer
Long Title: IUPAC Gold Book - telechelic polymer
DOI: 10.1351/goldbook.TT07167
Status: current

Definition
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.

Related Terms
- Prepolymer: https://dev.goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/PT07163
- initiator: https://dev.goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/I03043
- monomer: https://dev.goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/M04017
- polymerization: https://dev.goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/P04740
- termination: https://dev.goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/T06274

Source
- PAC, 2004, 76, 889. 'Definitions of terms relating to reactions of polymers and to functional polymeric materials (IUPAC Recommendations 2003)' on page 898 (https://doi.org/10.1351/pac200476040889)

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Citation: Citation: 'telechelic polymer' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.TT07167
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