Xg. Li et Mr. Huang, Molecular chain structure of thermotropic p-oxybenzoate/ethylene terephthalate/vanillate or phenylene terephthalate terpolymers, POLYM-PLAST, 39(2), 2000, pp. 317-331
Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) and proton nuclear magnetic resonance (NM
R) spectroscopies and wide-angle x-ray diffraction were used to analyze the
molecular chain structures of thermotropic liquid-crystalline terpolymers
from p-acetoxybenzoic acid, polyethylene terephthalate, and p-acetoxyvanill
ic acid, or 1,4-diacetoxybenzene/terephthalic acid. The general features of
FTIR spectra of the oriented terpolymer films and NMR spectra for the terp
olymers in solution with the variation of terpolymer composition are discus
sed. The assignments of the resonance peaks in FTIR and proton NMR spectra
are given. The number-average degree of polymerization of the terpolymers i
s estimated to be up to 34 by end-group analysis based on the NMR spectra.
The meridional scans of x-ray diffraction of the as-drawn terpolymer ribbon
s are being used to characterize the aperiodic characteristics and persiste
nce length of the terpolymer chain. The persistence length of the terpolyme
rs seems to increase with an increase in the p-oxybenzoate unit content and
reaches the largest value of 5.56 nm at the p-oxybenzoate unit content of
70 mol%.