Organic Chemistry
Organic Chemistry
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ISBN: 9781118875766
Author: T. W. Graham Solomons, Craig B. Fryhle, Scott A. Snyder
Publisher: WILEY
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Heating phthalic anhydride and glycerol together yields a polyester called a glyptal resin. A glyptal resin is especially rigid because the polymer chains are “cross-linked.” Write a portion of the structure of a glyptal resin and show how cross-linking occurs.

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