Round 6: Tossup 12

Heeger, MacDiarmid, and Shirakawa shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing the “conductive” type of these molecules. The degree of forming these molecules equals (15[1])one over one minus the extent of the reaction according to the Carothers (“ker-OTHERS”) equation. Olefin-based examples of these molecules can be formed using a catalyst named for (*) Ziegler and Natta. These molecules are usually represented by a chemical formula inside (10[1])parentheses with a subscript (10[2])n. These molecules are formed via step-growth and chain-growth mechanisms. For 10 points, kevlar and nylon are examples of what type of molecules made of monomer subunits? ■END■

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