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Ch.13 - Solids & Modern Materials

Chapter 13, Problem 78

Polyacrylonitrile (PAN) is an addition polymer with the struc- ture shown here. Draw the structure of the monomer.

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Hello everyone. So in this video we're being asked was the modern were used to form the addition polymer with the following structure has given right over here. So we're talking about addition polymer information. A carbon carbon bond is broken in each monomer, and a single bond for a carbon carbon bond is being formed. So you can see here that the only way to kind of acquire this is by adding a uh carbon carbon double bond or a pi bond. And the only carbon carbon bond I can find is this one right here. So that's what we'll go ahead and do then. So of course again, we have our two hydrogen is connected to our carbon. We're adding a double bond here, then this stays the same. And then we have a carbon attached double bonded by oxygen. And then we have our nitrogen and two hydrogen groups attached to that. So that is going to be my final answer for this problem. Thank you all so much for watching.