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What does tacticity mean?

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Noun
  1. (chemistry) The relative stereochemistry of adjacent chiral centers within a macromolecule.
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These critical deformation rates are themselves influenced by the tacticity of the molecule and can therefore be tailored with careful synthesis.
The rate of hydrolysis depends not only on the tacticity of the polymer, but probably also on its configurational sequence statistics.
Metallocene catalysts allow for control of tacticity in polyolefins, making it possible to synthesize materials with a wide range of properties from a single monomer.
This association explains strong dependencies of the statistical segment length on tacticity and temperature in the vicinity of the melting point.
It is found that tacticity has no influence on the molecular structure in solution, while it plays a role in the gel state.

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