Wikipedia:WikiProject Chemicals/Organization

The list is aligned with the goals of the WikiProject. Additions and deletions to this list are not currently invited but remain possible. Feel free to post your proposals for such on the discussion page.

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Typically, these polymers do not have a table of properties. Instead of the usual chemical properties, a table of material properties for each of the polymers might be more suitable, although such properties may vary too much depending on molecular weight, branching, tacticity and monomer orientation (head-to-tail, etc.), cross-linking, and any co-monomers present (even in small amounts). At this point, these tables are considered to be low priority.

• Note: it was discussedhere to transfer this section to WikiProject Polymers. The outcome was that the list be used as a goal of both projects, and the statistics included with the WP:Chem statistics.

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{{chembox header}} colspan="3" | Write a full page for 30 common polymers, such as PVC. The status is the assessment of their completeness.
{{chembox header}} colspan=1 | Wikipage ! {{chembox header}} colspan=1 | Status ! {{chembox header}} colspan=1 | Remark
Acrylic glass	style="background-color:lightgrey;text-align:center;" | B-Class	Polymethyl methacrylate, PMMA, Lucite, Plexiglas, Perspex
Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene	style="background-color:orange;text-align:center;" | Start	ABS copolymer
Aramid	style="background-color:orange;text-align:center;" | Start	(needs chemical info), mentions Twaron and Kevlar
Cellulose	style="background-color:orange;text-align:center;" | Start
Rubber	style="background-color:lightgrey;text-align:center;" | B-Class	or polyisoprene, including vulcanization
Neoprene	style="background-color:orange;text-align:center;" | Start	Polychloroprene, polymer of chloroprene (2-chloro-1,3-butadiene)
Phenolic resin	style="background-color:red;text-align:center;" | Stub	such as Bakelite
Polyamide	style="background-color:orange;text-align:center;" | Start	such as nylon
Polybutadiene	style="background-color:red;text-align:center;" | Stub	polymers including SBS copolymer, others; expansion of article started
Polycarbonate	style="background-color:lightgrey;text-align:center;" | B-Class	Lexan, etc.
Polyester	style="background-color:orange;text-align:center;" | Start	such as poly ethylene terephthalate (PET)
Polyethylene	style="background-color:lightgrey;text-align:center;" | B-Class	to include HDPE, LDPE, LLDPE, UHMWPE
Polypropylene	style="background-color:orange;text-align:center;" | Start	significantly improved since evaluation
Polysaccharide	style="background-color:orange;text-align:center;" | Start
Polystyrene	style="background-color:lightgrey;text-align:center;" | B-Class	to include expanded PS, coPS-DVB
Polytetrafluoroethylene	style="background-color:lightgrey;text-align:center;" | B-Class	PTFE, Teflon
Polyurethane	style="background-color:orange;text-align:center;" | Start	Significantly improved since evaluation. Recommend raising status to B-Class.
Polyvinyl acetate	style="background-color:red;text-align:center;" | Stub	PVA?
Polyvinyl alcohol	style="background-color:orange;text-align:center;" | Start	PVA PVAL PVOH
Polyvinyl chloride	style="background-color:lightgrey;text-align:center;" | B-Class	PVC, needs more chem
Silicone	style="background-color:orange;text-align:center;" | Start	more correctly polysiloxanes, needs more chem
Starch	style="background-color:orange;text-align:center;" | Start

The following compounds have been discussed while deciding on the in-scope articles in this worklist. For reference purposes, they are listed here, but they are not in scope of the Chemicals wikiproject, and will not contribute to the achievement of the goals. Therefore, these articles will not follow the assessment scheme. In case you want to add or exchange a compound in the above worklist, be freely invited to propose such a change on the talk page.

Suggested inorganic chemicals

1. Aluminium: Aluminium bromide
2. Arsenic: Arsenic acid, see also Arsenic(III) oxide
3. Bismuth:Bismuth trichloride, Table available
4. Boron: Boron nitride, Boron trichloride
5. Bromine: Potassium bromide, Hydrogen bromide
6. Carbon: Silicon carbide, Carbonic acid, Sodium cyanide
7. Gallium: Gallium(III) chloride, Table available
8. Hafnium: Hafnium carbide
9. Iron: Iron(II) sulfate, Ferrocene
10. Molybdenum: Molybdenum hexacarbonyl
11. Nickel: Nickel sulfate
12. Nitrogen: Ammonium chloride, Sodium nitrate, Nitrous oxide, Nitric oxide
13. Palladium: Palladium(II) cyanide
14. Platinum: Chloroplatinic acid
15. Rhenium: Ammonium perrhenate
16. Rubidium: Rubidium chloride
17. Uranium: Uranium(III) chloride
18. Zirconium: Zirconium(IV) chloride, Table available

Suggested reagents and other compounds

1. Triazine, see 1,3,5-Triazine
2. Dioxane
3. Thiophenols, or better Thiophenol
4. Toluidines, or better para-Toluidine
5. Tetramethylammonium hydroxide

Suggested polymers

1. Butyl rubber - polyisobutylene + 2-7% isoprene. I plan to include a discussion of butyl rubber and nitrile rubber in Synthetic rubber. A separate, rather stubby article on Butyl rubber has appeared.
2. other halopolymers such as PCTFE, PVDC (Saran), PVDF, Tefzel, etc.
3. polysulfones ????
4. polyalphaolefins ???? - A stubby article on Polyolefins has appeared. I edited it to mention polyalphaolefins.
5. polyethers such as polyethylene oxide (PEO) and polypropylene oxide (PPO) Polyethylene glycol, the oligomer of PEO mentions PEO as well

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