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This is the answer to chapter 15, problem number 71 from the smith organic chemistry textbook.
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And this problem gives us two polymers and asks us what monomers needed to form each polymer.
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And so remember that we're talking about radical polymerization here.
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And so we need double bonds in our starting material in order to form the new carbon -carbon bonds between monomers.
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To make the polymer.
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So these are all vinyl derivatives.
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And so we can just sort of look at this and cut between molecules to see what we're trying to make here.
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And so we can cut here and that will give us three pieces.
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And so we could, i guess, think about cutting here and here as well.
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And so when we do that, we see that each of these pieces is going to look like this.
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So basically, we're cutting this into pieces like this...