POLYMERS AND MONOMERS

[destain]

So far, I've seen two patterns...One where you have to look for the ester and break it into hydroxyl and carboxyl groups and the other where you just have to look for the repeating pattern...

I kind of get the first one but for the second one!...If there are two monomers in a polymer and I'm looking for the repeating one, I just take the two repeats as one monomer if you get what I mean, is there some method to do this in a simpler and easier way...

[Mao]

I kind of get the first one but for the second one!...If there are two monomers in a polymer and I'm looking for the repeating one, I just take the two repeats as one monomer if you get what I mean, is there some method to do this in a simpler and easier way...

In addition polymers, two carbon in the backbone = 1 monomer, so you just go along the backbone and chop everything up into 2-carbon blocks. Is that what you meant? That's the best way to do it in my opinion.