15289 IUPAC Gold Book - polyoxyarylene 10.1351/goldbook.15289 15289 current 1 Polymer composed of macromolecules containing exclusively oxyarenediyl (formerly oxyarylene) constitutional repeating units in the backbone: \[\ce{-[-O-Ar\bond{-}]_{n}\bond{-}}\] where \(\ce{Ar}\) is an arenediyl (formerly arylene), heteroarenediyl (formerly heteroarylene), substituted arenediyl or substituted heteroarenediyl. Polyoxyarylenes are a subclass of polyethers. A polyoxyarylene in which arenediyl is phenylene or a substituted phenylene is a polyoxyphenylene. polyethers https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/15279 polyoxyphenylene https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/15291 PAC, 2009, 81, 1131. 'Glossary of class names of polymers based on chemical structure and molecular architecture (IUPAC Recommendations 2009)' on page 1160 (https://doi.org/10.1351/PAC-REC-08-01-30) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/15289/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/15289/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/15289/plain Citation: 'polyoxyarylene' 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.15289 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. 2026-06-21T06:11:36+00:00