caa a22 4500 465754929 CHVBK 20180323111844.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170327e19900901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF01166357 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF01166357 Reactions of adjacent substituents on polymer chains: Combinatorial consequences of the mechanism [Elektronische Daten] [Fred Gornick, Richard Freedman] This paper deals with a statistical problem arising from the pairwise reaction of immediately adjacent substituents along the backbone of a linear polymer chain. The possibility arises that a given substituent becomes unavailable for reaction as a result of the reaction of its nearest neighbors on either side. Previous treatments of this problem have not explicitly taken the consequences of the reaction mechanism into account. In this paper, it is shown that the expected number of unreacted substituents remaining after exhaustive pairwise reaction is a function of the reaction mechanism. For example, in the case of the chain model adopted here, which corresponds to a perfectly regular head-to-tail vinyl halide (-CH2-CHX-), we show that the fraction of halide atoms remaining after exhaustive removal is equal to 0.1233. The result is compared with results obtained from previous work. J.C. Baltzer AG, Scientific Publishing Company, 1990 Gornick Fred Department of Chemistry, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 21228, Baltimore, Maryland, USA aut Freedman Richard Department of Information Systems Management, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 21228, Baltimore, Maryland, USA aut Journal of Mathematical Chemistry Kluwer Academic Publishers 5/3(1990-09-01), 265-274 0259-9791 5:3<265 1990 5 10910 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01166357 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01166357 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Gornick Fred Department of Chemistry, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 21228, Baltimore, Maryland, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Freedman Richard Department of Information Systems Management, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 21228, Baltimore, Maryland, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Mathematical Chemistry Kluwer Academic Publishers 5/3(1990-09-01), 265-274 0259-9791 5:3<265 1990 5 10910 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer