New Combined Liquid Crystalline Polymers from Polyaddition of Biphenol Diglycidyl Ether and Trimeric Esters
New Combined Liquid Crystalline Polymers from Polyaddition of Biphenol Diglycidyl Ether and Trimeric Esters
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10.1021/ma990348i
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发表时间:
1999-09
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5.5
通讯作者:
Bao-Quan Chen;and Atsushi Kameyama;T. Nishikubo
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作者:
Bao-Quan Chen;and Atsushi Kameyama;T. Nishikubo
Six trimers with biphenyl mesogenic groups and polymethylene spacers were synthesized. From these trimers and biphenol diglycidyl ether (BPGE), a new series of combined liquid crystalline polymers (LCPs) with polyether backbone were synthesized by the polyaddition with quaternary phosphonium chloride as catalyst. The effects of flexible spacer length on the phase transition and mesomorphism of the resulting trimers and combined LCPs were studied using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), polarizing optical microscopy (POM), and X-ray diffraction. The trimers with 1,3-propylene and 1,4-butylene spacers were absent of mesophase, and the trimers with odd-numbered spacers, 1,5-pentylene and 1,7-heptylene, were nematic. In contrast, the trimers with even-numbered spacers, 1,6-hexylene and 1,10-decylene, were smectic within very narrow temperature ranges. All the combined LCPs were thermotropically nematic, though the crystalline behavior was complex with varying side-chain spacer length. The combined LCPs ...