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1948 Hanford & Joyce U.S. Patent 2,440,800 1 It has been found necessary to coin new terms to describe the reaction and the participants therein... ‘Telomerization’ is defined as the process of reacting..a molecule YZ which is called a ‘telogen’ with more than one unit of a polymerizable compound..called a ‘taxogen’ to form products called ‘telomers’ having the formula Y(A)_nZ.

1951 Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. 73 5197/1 When it [sc. the polymerization] is conducted in the presence of any one of a wide variety of organic compounds, telomers containing 1–25 tetrafluoroethylene units combined with one molecule of the chain transfer compound are obtained.

1966 J. A. Brydson Plastics Materials xv. 295 With an ethylene-carbon tetrachloride ratio of about 4:1 about 60% of the telomers have 7, 9 or 11 carbon atoms in the molecule.

1980 U.S. Patent 4,183,901 2 The maleic acid telomers are lower molecular weight polymers formed by reacting a chain transfer agent, or telogen with an olefinic monomer of taxogen.

1954 Jrnl. Res. Nat. Bureau Standards (U.S.) 53 122 YZ + nCX₂= CX₂→ Y(CX₂CX₂)_nZ... Such a reaction is called telomerization.

1974 H. I. Bolker Natural & Synthetic Polymers iii. 136 About 0·5–1·0 mole % of acetic acid is added as a telomerization agent.., which limits the formation of chains of excessively high molecular weight.

1967 Gloss. Terms Plastics Industry (B.S.I.) i. 7 Telomerized polymer, a polymer chain-stopped by a telomer.

1968 G. Trappe in P. D. Ritchie Vinyl & Allied Polymers xii. 265 Low molecular weight oils, greases, and waxes of polychlorotrifluoroethylene are made by polymerisation in the presence of telomerising agents such as carbon tetrachloride.