Everything about Oligomer totally explained
In
chemistry, an
oligomer consists of a finite number of
monomer units (ολιγος, or
oligos, is Greek for "a few"), in contrast to a
polymer which, at least in principle, consists of an unbounded number of monomers. Many oils are oligomeric, such as
liquid paraffin.
Plasticizers are oligomeric
esters widely used to soften
thermoplastics such as
PVC. They may be made from
monomers by linking them together, or by separation from the higher fractions of
crude oil.
Polybutene is an oligomeric oil used to make
putty.
In
biochemistry, the term oligomer is used for short, single stranded
DNA fragments, generally used in
hybridization experiments (bound to glass slides or
nylon membranes). It can also refer to a
protein complex made of two or more
subunits. In this case, a complex made of several different
protein subunits is called a
hetero-oligomer. When only one type of
protein subunit is used in the complex, it's called
homo-oligomer.
In
oligomerization a chemical process only converts monomers to a finite
degree of polymerization. The actual figure is a matter of debate, often a value between 10 and 100.
Telomerization
When an oligomer forms as a result of
chain transfer the oligomer is called a
telomer and the process
telomerization . A
telomere is a region of highly repetitive DNA at the end of a linear chromosome.
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