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[lilchezza]

Okiez, REALLY REALLY dumb issue, but it's just not working for me atm:rofl: .

Could someone plz explain, using diagrams, the condensation polymerisation of cellulose.

Thanking you in advance .

 

[followme]

http://www.kcpc.usyd.edu.au/discovery/9.2.2/9.2.2_Cellulose.html
hope it helps

 

[tristambrown]

glucose using brackets to highlight important parts (the OH parts)

HO-|C6H10O4|-OH


2 * glucose

HO-|C6H10O4|-OH + HO-|C6H10O4|-OH

The matching one of the above o's and 2 H's condense out


Cellulose

HO-|C6H10O4|-O-|C6H10O4|-OH + the H2O that was squeezed out


Cellulose written propperly to account for the ongoing chain with N denoting NX this momomer .. the vertical lines on the outside signify the "edges" of the monomer

-|-O-|C6H10O4|-|-n