Lm. Tartakovskaya et al., SYNTHESIS OF MESOMORPHIC POLY(DIARYLSILOX ANES) CONTAINING VARIOUS HETEROSILOXANE UNITS, Vysokomolekularnye soedinenia. Seria A, 35(4), 1993, pp. 20000191-20000193
The poly(diphenylsiloxanes) whose phenyl groups were partially substit
uted for n-hexyl moieties or contained various substituents in para-po
sition were prepared. The flexible alkyl substituents in poly(diphenyl
siloxane) chain were shown to change sharply the physicochemical param
eters of the polymer. The properties of all the polymers prepared were
characteristic of mesomorphic polyorganosiloxanes.