Talk:Polyacetylene

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[edit] structural drawing

Is there a template to request a drawing of a molecule?

[edit] How easy to polymerize

How easy is it to get acetylene to polymerize?


- Now a days poly(acetylene) is generally not made by polymerizing acetylene, which is a highly flammable gas that spontaneously oligomerizes upon concentration. The most common synthesis now is using special metathesis catalysts deveopled by Professor Grubs at Cal Tech (which are known as Grub's catalysts) on molecules like cyclooctatetraene. Acetylene itself polymerizes in a similar fashion to ethylene; anionic, cationic, and radical polymerizations will all work. I'm not sure what you mean by "how easy" it is to polymerize it... Either it polymerizes or it doesn't; there is really no difficulty associated with it. Fearofcarpet 20:03, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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