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Analysis highlights discrepancies between enthalpy and ring-strain in polymerization, suggesting new definitions.
The enthalpy of polymerization does not equate to ring-strain, since conformational enthalpy is used to increase the system’s entropy.
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Nieboer et al. (2025) studied this question.
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