Polyolefins

A polyolefin is a polymer produced from an olefin or alkene as a monomer. In organic chemistry, an alkene, olefin, or olefine is an unsaturated chemical molecule containing at least one carbon-to-carbon double bond. The simplest alkene is ethylene. Special families of these olefins are α-olefins, which have a double bond at the primary or α-position.