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Hi!
I've been reading up on polymers recently and looking particularly at polypropylene. There's a lot of information on how it's formed from propene and the different types of polypropylene (isotactic/atactic etc), but nothing on what's on the ends of one of these chains.
Does it finish with a hydrogen? I assume it doesn't just have an empty space for a bond, and that there can't be an intact double bond (or there would be no way for the monomer to join the chain). Please help!
What is at the end of a polypropylene chain?
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Re: What is at the end of a polypropylene chain?
Hi JuliusCaesium,
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