CAIE A-Level Chemistry 35.2.1 Predicting Polymerisation from Monomers
Practise using C=C bonds and complementary functional groups to classify a proposed polymerisation.
- Syllabus
- 2028–2030
- Course
- Chemistry 9701
- Level
- A2
Exam points
- choose addition when a monomer’s carbon–carbon double bond opens without loss of a small molecule
- choose condensation when two functional groups link repeatedly with elimination of a small molecule
- recognise intramolecular dehydration or autocondensation when a bifunctional molecule reacts with itself as stated
35.2.1—The type of polymerisation reaction question 1
[Maximum number: 1]
Copper is a transition element and has atomic number 29.
Name the type of reaction occurring during this polymerisation.
condensation / addition – elimination 1
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