Title: tritactic polymer
Long Title: IUPAC Gold Book - tritactic polymer
DOI: 10.1351/goldbook.T06509
Status: current

Definition
A tactic polymer that contains three sites of defined stereoisomerism in the main chain of the configurational base unit. Example: 

Related Terms
- configurational base unit: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/C01250
- stereoisomerism: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/S05983
- tactic polymer: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/T06246

Source
- Purple Book, 1st ed., p. 32 (http://old.iupac.org/publications/books/author/metanomski.html)

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Citation: Citation: 'tritactic 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.T06509
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