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CAIE A-Level Chemistry 35.2 Predicting the Type of Polymerisation

Practise classifying polymerisation from monomer functional groups or from the linkages in a polymer section.

Syllabus
2028–2030
Course
Chemistry 9701
Level
A2

Exam points

  • identify addition polymerisation from a C=C monomer and an all-carbon repeat-unit backbone
  • identify condensation polymerisation from bifunctional monomers and ester or amide links in the chain
  • when given a polymer section, recover its monomer first and use both structures to justify the reaction type

Covered syllabus points

35.2.1—The type of polymerisation reaction35.2.2—The type of polymerisation reaction

35.2 Predicting the type of polymerisation question 1

[Maximum number: 1]

Copper is a transition element and has atomic number 29.

Name the type of reaction occurring during this polymerisation.

35.2 Predicting the type of polymerisation question 2

[Maximum number: 4]

Table 4.1 shows the structures of sections of three polymers, X, Y and Z.
Each polymer is made from only one type of monomer.

Table 4.1

Table 4.1

Complete Table 4.2 to state the type of polymerisation and draw the structure of the monomer for each polymer, X, Y and Z.

Table 4.2

Table 4.2

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