Talk:Dimerization (chemistry)
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Reference
[edit]This page needs some type of reference, added tag.--FloNight 20:30, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
Clutter
[edit]The stub templates at the bottom make this article really cluttered. I think we might want to do something about it. --Ruff Bark away!
first paragraph says covalent bonds.....second paragraph says no covalent bonds. clarify please. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.122.62.231 (talk) 18:31, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
Dimer Graphs and Statistical Mechanical Dimers
[edit]The page needs a discussion of this topic —Preceding unsigned comment added by 155.198.202.35 (talk) 10:35, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
"structurally similar" ?!
[edit]The monomers of a dimer don't need to be "structurally similar". I corrected the text.
--Felix Tritschler (talk) 14:22, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
- I’ve amended the article description correspondingly.
- - SquisherDa (talk) 22:39, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
Wider usage of the term!
[edit]"A dimer .. is an oligomer consisting of two monomers" . . uh, except when it isn’t. The article is written from a polymer-chemistry standpoint - where focus is typically on degree of polymerisation. But diatomic gases, for a familiar example, are spoken of as dimeric. And in the world of, eg, UV lasers, the excited / excitation dimers central to excimer technology are diatomic species. Both standpoints are valid; and I’d think there are likely to be others.
Can anyone add to the article accordingly?
- SquisherDa (talk) 22:59, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
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Dimers
[edit]Slightly tortuous vocabulary theme: IUPAC defines "dimerization" but not "dimer". "Dimerization". Diborane is often described as a dimer, but the monomer basically does not exist as far as I can tell. We can agree that borane will dimerize, but it seems deceptive to describe diborane as a dimer of an extremely elusive species. We do not describe ethane as a dimer, although the Gold Book describes the dimerization of methyl radicals. Bottom line: our article dimer probably should be written on "dimerization", which is better defined.--Smokefoot (talk) 14:00, 10 July 2023 (UTC)