Condensation polymerization (Carothers)
Polimerización por condensación y química de poliésteres y poliamidas
- Date
- 1929-1935 · confidence high
- Place
- DuPont Experimental Station, Wilmington, Delaware, United States
- Credited to
- Wallace Carothers
- People
- 👤 Wallace Carothers1896–1937
- Field
- Matter & energy
What was discovered
Carothers experimentally confirms macromolecular theory by synthesising polyesters and polyamides of controlled molecular weight through stepwise condensation reactions, and formulates the equation relating conversion to chain length.
What it led to
- Nylon (1935)
- Neoprene
- Polyesters (PET)
- Quantitative polymer science
Built on
- Polymers as covalent macromolecules (Staudinger)1920-1922
- Staudinger's macromolecules
- ester and amide chemistry