Oligomer - Definition - Law Dictionary Home Dictionary Definition oligomer

Definition :

A molecule composed of a small number of linked monomer units a short polymer compounds called oligomers have less than one hundred monomer units and usually less than thirty Oligomers of increasing length are called dimer trimer tetramer pentamer hexamer heptamer octamer nonamer decamer etc In colloquial laboratory jargon they may also be referred to as nine mer ten mer eleven mer twelve mer etc especially for oligomers of greater than eight units