Chloropolymers are macromolecules synthesized from

alkene In organic chemistry, an alkene is a hydrocarbon containing a carbon–carbon double bond. Alkene is often used as synonym of olefin, that is, any hydrocarbon containing one or more double bonds.H. Stephen Stoker (2015): General, Organic, an ...

s in which one or more hydrogens of the

polymer A polymer (; Greek '' poly-'', "many" + ''-mer'', "part") is a substance or material consisting of very large molecules called macromolecules, composed of many repeating subunits. Due to their broad spectrum of properties, both synthetic a ...

were replaced by

chlorine Chlorine is a chemical element with the Symbol (chemistry), symbol Cl and atomic number 17. The second-lightest of the halogens, it appears between fluorine and bromine in the periodic table and its properties are mostly intermediate betwee ...

. A common example of a chloropolymer is polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and

poly(dichlorophosphazene) Poly(dichlorophosphazene), also called dichlorophosphazine polymer or phosphonitrilechloride polymer, is a chemical compound with formula (PNCl2)''n''. It is an inorganic (hence carbon-free) chloropolymer, whose backbone is a chain of alternati ...

which has a polymer formula of (PNCl₂)_''n'', the precursor of which is hexachlorophosphazene, which itself has been called ''chloropolymer''.JOHN W. FIELDHOUSE and DANIEL F. GRAVE
Polymerization of Hexachlorocyclotriphosphazene
''Phosphorus Chemistry''. November 11, 1981 , 315-320 DOI:10.1021/bk-1981-0171.ch066

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