A new liquid crystalline polyacetylene containing a phenyl benzoate mesogen (5) is synthesized
whose mesomorphic properties are found to be easily "tunab1e" by simple mechanical perturbation. Thepolymerization of 10- [ 4 - (4' -methoxyphenoxycarbonyl )phenoxycarbonyl] - 1 -decyne (4 ) in itiated by theWCl6-Ph4Sn/dioxane complex yields polymer 5 with a Mw of 28400. The molecular structure of 5 is characterized by NMR
IR
and UV spectroscopy and its liquid crystalline behavior is investigated by DSC
and solidification-induced banded textures.Such phenomena have been observed in the main-chain liquid crystalline polymers with rigid backbones
but have seldom been reported for the side-chain liquid crystalline polymers with flexible backbones
suggesting that the rigid polyacetylene backbone of 5 plays a constructive role in inducing the novel molecular alignments.
Abstract
A new liquid crystalline polyacetylene containing a phenyl benzoate mesogen (5) is synthesized
whose mesomorphic properties are found to be easily "tunab1e" by simple mechanical perturbation. Thepolymerization of 10- [ 4 - (4' -methoxyphenoxycarbonyl )phenoxycarbonyl] - 1 -decyne (4 ) in itiated by theWCl6-Ph4Sn/dioxane complex yields polymer 5 with a Mw of 28400. The molecular structure of 5 is characterized by NMR
IR
and UV spectroscopy and its liquid crystalline behavior is investigated by DSC