Vinyl polymer

In polymer chemistry, vinyl polymers are a group of polymers derived from substituted vinyl (H₂C=CHR) monomers. Their backbone is an extended alkane chain [−CH₂−CHR−].^[1] In popular usage, "vinyl" refers only to polyvinyl chloride (PVC).

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