please can u help i need to a structure of a polymer and i dentify the monomer unit and include three monomer units,from the compound
CH2=CH-CH-OH
CH3
AND STATE THE POLYMERIZATION INVOLVED IN FORMING THE POLYMER,please help i have tried ,but i cant make head nor tail of it
The CH3 you show at the bottom I presume belongs attached to the last CH on the right so it would look like this.
CH2=CH-CH(OH)-CH3
I emailed a friend last week who has a Ph. D. in organic chemistry and he has advised me that he suspects that H2O splits out from the OH and the terminal CH3 to make 1,3-butadiene, which is the monomer.
Then the 1,3-butadiene polymerizes. The repeating unit would be
(-CH2CH=CHCH2-)n and n can be any number of units you wish. I hope this helps.
thank you Dr bob
opps.... sorry
thank you DrBob222
I apologize for the confusion in the previous response. Let me clarify the structure of the polymer and identify the monomer unit for you.
The compound you provided is CH2=CH-CH(OH)-CH3. To determine the polymer structure, we need to identify the monomer unit and the type of polymerization involved.
In this case, the monomer unit is CH2=CH-CH(OH)-CH3. The monomer unit can be derived by removing the CH3 group from the end of the compound. So, the monomer unit is CH2=CH-CH(OH)-.
The polymerization involved in forming the polymer would be through a process called addition polymerization. In this process, multiple monomer units are joined together to form a polymer without the elimination of any byproducts.
The repeating unit of the polymer would be (-CH2-CH=CH-CH(OH)-)n, where n represents the number of monomer units present in the polymer chain.
I hope this helps to clarify the structure of the polymer and the monomer unit, as well as the type of polymerization involved. If you have any further questions, feel free to ask!