Figure 2
From: Dynamic Networks that Drive the Process of Irreversible Step-Growth Polymerization

Illustration of an AB-reaction binding one A-group of an A2 and one B-group of an AB2 monomer. In (a) the colour of the bond indicates which monomer provided the A- and the B-group. In (b), the graph representation, the type of the functional group is stored in the directionality of the edge. An in-edge corresponds to a reacted A-group, an out-edge to a reacted B-group.