Compendium of polymer terminology and nomenclature
Subtitle: IUPAC recommendations, 2008
By: International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry ; issued by the Polymer Division ; prepared for publication by Richard G. Jones ... [et al.] ; with advice from Aubrey Jenkins, Pavel Kratochvil.
Contributors: Jones, Richard G.; International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. Commission on Macromolecular Nomenclature.
Publisher: RSC Pub.; IUPAC
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 443
ISBN-13: 9780854044917
Subjects: Macromolecules -- Nomenclature; Polymers -- Nomenclature; Macromolecules -- Terminology; Polymers -- Terminology
Genres: Nomenclature; Terminology
Other titles: Purple book
Notes: Rev. and enl. ed. of: Compendium of macromolecular nomenclature. 1991.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Glossary of basic terms in polymer science (1996); title: Stereochemical definitions and notations relating to polymers (1980); title: Definitions of terms relating to individual macromolecules, their assemblies, and dilute polymer solutions (1988); title: Basic classification and definitions of polymerization reactions (1994); title: Definitions relating to stereochemically asymmetric polymerizations (2002); title: Definitions of terms relating to crystalline polymers (1988); title: Definitions of basic terms relating to low-molar-mass and polymer liquid crystals (2001); title: Definition of terms relating to the non-ultimate mechanical properties of polymers (1997); title: Definitions of terms related to polymer blends, composites, and multiphase polymeric materials (2004); title: Terminology of polymers containing ionizable or ionic groups and of polymers containing ions (2006); title: Definitions of terms relating to the structure and processing of sols, gels, networks and inorganic-organic hybrid materials (2007); title: Definitions of terms relating to reactions of polymers and to functional polymeric materials (2003); title: Definitions of terms relating to degradation, aging, and related chemical transformations of polymers (1996); title: Introduction to polymer nomenclature; title: Nomenclature of regular single-strand organic polymers (2002); title: Nomenclature of regular double-strand (ladder and spiro) organic polymers (1993); title: Structure-based nomenclature for irregular single-strand organic polymers (1994); title: Graphic representations (chemical formulae) of macromolecules (1994); title: Source-based nomenclature for copolymers (1985); title: Source-based nomenclature for non-linear macromolecules and macromolecular assemblies (1997); title: Generic source-based nomenclature for polymers (2001); title: ISO abbreviations for names of polymeric substances; title: Bibliography of biopolymer-related IUPAC-IUBMB nomenclature recommendations.