15245 IUPAC Gold Book - amino polymer 10.1351/goldbook.15245 15245 current synonyms: amide-aldehyde polymer, amine-aldehyde polymer 1 Polymer prepared by polycondensation of an amino component such as amine or amide with an aldehyde, or by curing reactive oligomers prepared from an amino component and an aldehyde. Formaldehyde is commonly used as the aldehyde and (a) melamine or (b) urea as the amino component. The resulting polymer is named (a) melamine polymer or melamineformaldehyde polymer, (b) urea polymer or urea-formaldehyde polymer. A mixture of the reactive oligomers prepared by the condensation of an amino component with an aldehyde is, in a public (popular) use and technological practice, usually referred to as an amino resin, e.g., melamine-formaldehyde resin or urea-formaldehyde resin. Examples of the oligomers present in melamine-formaldehyde and ureaformaldehyde resins are: Use of the term "resin" for cured reactive oligomers is discouraged; the cured resin should be named as an amino polymer. An amino polymer is usually a network polymer. To form the polymer, polycondensation takes place at the hydroxymethyl groups of an amino resin. Examples of the network-structure motifs of that form are: Melamine polymers can be regarded as a subclass of polytriazines. polytriazines https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/15307 PAC, 2009, 81, 1131. 'Glossary of class names of polymers based on chemical structure and molecular architecture (IUPAC Recommendations 2009)' on page 1134 (https://doi.org/10.1351/PAC-REC-08-01-30) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/15245/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/15245/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/15245/plain Citation: 'amino 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.15245 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. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . 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. 2026-06-21T06:02:14+00:00