SYNTHESIS OF NOVEL POLYMERS CONTAINING CYCLO-BUTADIENE THIOPHENE AND ALKYNE UNITS - POLYMERIC ORGANOMETALLIC MESOGENS

Authors
ALTMANN M ENKELMANN V LIESER G BUNZ UHF
Citation
M. Altmann et al., SYNTHESIS OF NOVEL POLYMERS CONTAINING CYCLO-BUTADIENE THIOPHENE AND ALKYNE UNITS - POLYMERIC ORGANOMETALLIC MESOGENS, Advanced materials, 7(8), 1995, pp. 726-728
Citations number
39
Categorie Soggetti
Material Science
Journal title
Advanced materials → ACNP
ISSN journal
09359648
Volume
7
Issue
8
Year of publication
1995
Pages
726 - 728
Database
ISI
SICI code
0935-9648(1995)7:8<726:SONPCC>2.0.ZU;2-Z
Abstract
Communication: A new class of organometallic liquid-crystalline rigid- rod polymers containing thiophene (see Figure) are reported and it is shown how their phase behavior can be tuned through variation of the s ide groups. The crystallization of the compound shown in the Figure pr oceeds through a transient lyotropic smectic state, a state hitherto u nknown in polymeric organometallic systems.