{"term":{"id":"13980","title":"rotaxane polymer","longtitle":"IUPAC Gold Book - rotaxane polymer","doi":"10.1351\/goldbook.13980","code":"13980","status":"current","synonym":"<em>synonyms<\/em>: polymeric rotaxane, polyrotaxane","definitions":[{"id":1,"text":"Polymer composed of macromolecules that are macromolecular rotaxanes.","notes":{"1":"A narrower definition of rotaxane polymer: \"Polymer composed of macromolecules consisting of cyclic molecules threaded by a linear macromolecule that is eventually capped with bulky end-units preventing dethreading of cyclic molecules\" has previously been published.","2":"Though the synonym \"polyrotaxane\" currently appears in the literature, its use is discouraged. This term, from a purely semantic point of view, namely, implies many threaded rings, i.e., a polymer formed from a rotaxane, while a molecule of a rotaxane polymer can comprise a single threaded ring."},"links":[{"term":"macromolecular rotaxanes","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/13968"}],"sources":["PAC, 2012, 84, 2135. 'Terminology and nomenclature for macromolecular rotaxanes and pseudorotaxanes (IUPAC Recommendations 2012)' on page 2143 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1351\/PAC-REC-11-10-15)"]}],"altoutputs":{"html":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/13980\/html","xml":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/13980\/xml","plain":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/13980\/plain"},"citation":"Citation: 'rotaxane polymer' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351\/goldbook.13980","license":"The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/) for individual terms.","collection":"If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org .","disclaimer":"The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using.","accessed":"2026-04-18T02:59:24+00:00"}}