Polyacetylene
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Polyacetylene (PA) is conducting polymer of the rigid-rod polymer host family.
The polymerization of the acetylene (chemical fomula C2H2, structurally: HC≡CH) results in a long chain of carbon atoms with alternating single and double bonds between them, each with one hydrogen atom which could be replaced by a functional group. Schematically (with hydrogen atoms not shown) ...C=C-C=C-C...
External links
- Polyacetylene (http://romano.physics.wisc.edu/winokur/handbook/node5.html)
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2000 presentation speech (http://nobelprize.org/chemistry/laureates/2000/presentation-speech.html)de:Polyethin