"LIVING" FREE RADICAL SYNTHESIS OF NOVEL RODCOIL DIBLOCK COPOLYMERS WITH POLYSTYRENE AND MESOGEN-JACKETED LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMER SEGMENTS*

The synthesis of rod-coil diblock copolymers was achieved for the firsttime by TEMPO-mediated "living" free radical polymerization of styrene and 2,5-bis[(4-methoxyphenyl)oxycarbonyl]styrene(MPCS). The block architecture of the two diblockcopolymers thus prepared, MPCS-b-St(5400/2400) and MPCS-b-St(10800/8700), was con-firmed by GPC, DSC studies and the formation of multimolecular micelles.