Title: degrees of cistacticity and transtacticity
Long Title: IUPAC Gold Book - degrees of cistacticity and transtacticity
DOI: 10.1351/goldbook.D01571
Status: current

Definition
For a regular polymer containing double bonds in the main chain of the constitutional repeating units these are the fractions of such double bonds that are in the cis and trans configurations, respectively.

Related Terms
- constitutional repeating units: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/C01286
- regular polymer: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/R05249
- trans: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/C01092

Source
- Purple Book, 1st ed., p. 46 (http://old.iupac.org/publications/books/author/metanomski.html)

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Citation: Citation: 'degrees of cistacticity and transtacticity' 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.D01571
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