History
Article Edit this page Discussion

Monomer

From Psychology Wiki

Jump to: navigation, search

Community portal · Tasks to do · News · Help

Clinical · Educational · Ind&Org · Other fields · Professional · Transpersonal · World

Assessment | Biopsychology | Comparative | Cognitive | Developmental | Language | Personality | Philosophy | Research Methods | Social | Statistics

Biological: Behavioural genetics · Evolutionary psychology · Neuroanatomy · Neurochemistry · Neuroendocrinology · Psychoneuroimmunology · Physiological Psychology · Psychopharmacology


In chemistry, a monomer (from Greek mono "one" and meros "part") is a small molecule that may become chemically bonded to other monomers to form a polymer.

[edit] In Biochemistry

Amino acids are natural monomers, and polymerize to form proteins. Glucose monomers can also polymerize to form starches, and glycogen polymers. In this case the polymerization reaction is known as a dehydration or condensation reaction (due to the formation of water (H2O) as one of the products) where a hydrogen atom and a hydroxyl (-OH) group are lost to form H2O and an oxygen molecule bonds between each monomer unit.

Note that the lower molecular weight compounds built from monomers are also referred to as dimers, trimers, tetramers, pentamers, octamers, 20-mers, etc. if they have 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, or 20 monomer units, respectively. Any number of these monomer units may be indicated by the appropriate prefix, eg, decamer, being a 10-unit monomer chain or polymer. Larger numbers are often stated in English in lieu of Greek. Polymers with relatively low number of units are called oligomers.

See also:


Smallwikipedialogo.png This page uses content from the English-language version of Wikipedia. The original article was at Monomer. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with Psychology Wiki, the text of Wikipedia is available under the GNU Free Documentation License.

Rate this article:

Share this article:

Hubs Highlights International Sites Wikia messages
Entertainment
Gaming
Cartoons & Comics
Science Fiction
Hobbies
Sports
See all...
Grand Theft Auto
Doctor Who
Legend of Zelda Wiki
Terminator Wiki
Everquest II Wiki
Mystery Science Theater 3000
German
Spanish
Chinese
Japanese
More...
Wikia is hiring for several open positions
Send this article to a friend
"Monomer"
 
 
Hi!

I thought you'd like this page from Wikia!

http://psychology.wikia.com

Come check it out!
Send confirmation