A chemical reaction resulting in the breaking of skeletal bonds.
chain scission : A chemical reaction resulting in the breaking of skeletal bond.[ 1]
Chain scission is a term used in polymer chemistry describing the degradation of a polymer main chain .[ 2] thermal stress (heat) or ionizing radiation (e.g. light, UV radiation or gamma radiation ), often involving oxygen . During chain cleavage , the polymer chain is broken at a random point in the backbone to form two - mostly still highly molecular - fragments.[ 3]
Depolymerization , on the other hand, is the elimination of low molecular weight substances (monomers , dimers and suchlike) from a polymer.[ 4]
References
^ "chain scission" . Gold Book . IUPAC. doi :10.1351/goldbook.C00961 . Retrieved 1 April 2024 .^ IUPAC , Compendium of Chemical Terminology chain scission ". doi :10.1351/goldbook.C00961 ^ Sebastian Kotzenburg, Michael Maskus, Oskar Nuyken: Polymere – Synthese, Eigenschaften und Anwendungen , Springer Spektrum, 2014, S. 440–441, ISBN 978-3-642-34772-6 .
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