This movie shows a simulation for the polymerization of Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC). This polymerization is
performed by Control Radical Polymerization (CRP), that is a process to form polymers by successive monomers
additions. This growing process is mainly made by three events: propagation, if the next monomer is linearly
added to the chain, backbiting, when the free radical changes its position and a new branch will start growing
perpendicular to the previous one, and termination, if the chain stops to grow.
PVC is produced by polymerization of the monomer vinyl chloride (VCM), made by the following elements:
carbon atoms (blue spheres), hydrogen atoms (white spheres) and chlorine atoms (green spheres). The red
sphere is the free radical.