Provide the Structure of the Poly(lactic Acid) That Is Formed

question 56

Essay

Provide the structure of the poly(lactic acid) that is formed by base catalyzed ring opening polymerization of the dilactone shown below.

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Definitions:

One-sample T-test

A statistical test used to determine whether a sample mean significantly differs from a known or hypothesized population mean.

Kruskal-Wallis Test

A non-parametric method used to determine if there are statistically significant differences between two or more groups of an independent variable on a continuous or ordinal dependent variable.

Kruskal-Wallis Test

A non-parametric method for testing whether samples originate from the same distribution.

One-tail

Refers to a type of statistical test where the critical area of a distribution is one-sided so that it tests for the possibility of the relationship in one direction.