Talk:Dimerization (chemistry)

Reference
This page needs some type of reference, added tag.--FloNight 20:30, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

Clutter
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
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" ?!
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!
"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)

Wiki Education assignment: CHEM 300
— Assignment last updated by Tiff592 (talk) 00:21, 27 October 2022 (UTC)

Dimers
Slightly tortuous vocabulary theme: IUPAC defines "dimerization" but not "dimer". 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)