15260 IUPAC Gold Book - polyvinyl ketone 10.1351/goldbook.15260 15260 current 1 Polymer prepared from a vinyl ketone. A molecule of a regular polyvinyl ketone is described by the constitutional repeating unit: where \(\ce{R}\) is alkyl, aryl, or heteroaryl or substituted alkyl, substituted aryl, or substituted heteroaryl. Polyvinyl ketones are a subclass of vinyl polymers. vinyl polymers https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/15262 PAC, 2009, 81, 1131. 'Glossary of class names of polymers based on chemical structure and molecular architecture (IUPAC Recommendations 2009)' on page 1144 (https://doi.org/10.1351/PAC-REC-08-01-30) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/15260/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/15260/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/15260/plain Citation: 'polyvinyl ketone' 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.15260 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. 2026-04-20T09:19:47+00:00