J. Allgaier et H. Finkelmann, SYNTHESIS AND MAGNETIC-PROPERTIES OF MESOGENIC SIDE-CHAIN POLYMERS CONTAINING STABLE RADICALS, Macromolecular chemistry and physics, 195(3), 1994, pp. 1017-1030
An amorphous and a liquid-crystalline side-chain polymer containing st
able nitroxyl radicals are synthesized, the free radical being located
either in a piperidine N-oxyl or a 1,3-oxazolidine N-oxyl moiety. The
se polymers are available by reaction of precursor polymer having a fo
rmyl group in every repeating unit with low-molecular-weight nitroxyl
free radicals functionalized with an amino group. The conversion of th
e polymer-analogous reaction is nearly quantitative. Both the amorphou
s and the liquid-crystalline polymer show paramagnetic behaviour in th
e temperature range from 6 to 300 K.