含二茂铁的双取代哒嗪的合成和介晶性

合成了8个未见报道的中心桥连基为哒嗪环、酯基、CHN基,含有二茂铁、三个苯环、不同末端链长度的双取代哒嗪化合物,并通过示差扫描量热仪(DSC)对其介晶性进行了表征.研究表明,末端链长度对相变温度和清亮点温度均有影响,但对相变温度范围影响较小.     

含胆甾基、西佛碱的3,6-双取代哒嗪的合成和介晶性

合成了8个未见报道的中心桥连基为酯基、CH＝N基, 含有哒嗪环、胆甾基、二个苯环、不同末端链长度的双取代哒嗪化合物, 并通过示差扫描量热法(DSC)对其介晶性进行了表征. 研究表明, 末端链长度对相变温度和清亮点温度均有影响, 但对相变温度范围影响较小.     

含胆甾基的双取代哒嗪的合成和介晶性

合成了8个未见报道的中心桥连基为哒嗪环、酯基、CH＝N基,含有胆甾基、二个苯环、不同末端链长度的双取代哒嗪化合物,并通过示差扫描量热法(DSC)对其介晶性进行了表征.研究表明,末端链长度对相变温度和清亮点温度均有影响,但对相变温度范围影响较小.     

双取代哒嗪有机液晶的合成、结构及刚性实对介晶性的影响

合成了16个中心桥连基为哒嗪环、酯基或CH=N基,含有苯环、不同刚性实长度和不同末端链长的哒嗪化合物,并通过DSC对其介晶进行了表征。研究表明,末端链长度对相变温度和清亮点温度均有影响,但对相变温度范围影响较小,而刚性实长度对其影响却较大。     

3-甲氧基-6-(4-烷氧苯基)哒嗪的合成及介晶性研究

在三苯基膦钯的催化下，由3－氯－3－甲氧基哒嗪与对烷氧苯基硼酸偶联合成了7种具有液晶性的中心桥连基为哒嗪环，不同烷氧基长度的含有苯环的哒嗪衍生物，并通过DSC和偏光显微镜对其介晶性进行了表征。研究表明，末端链长度对相变温度和清亮点温度均有影响，但对相变温度的影响较小。     

3-烷氧基-6-（4-甲氧羰基苯基）哒嗪的合成及介晶性研究

3，6-二氯哒嗪和醇在相转移催化剂(C_4H_9)_4NBr和浓碱作用下，合成3-氯- 6-烷氧基哒嗪，在三苯基膦钯的催化下，用3-氯-6-烷氧基哒嗪与对甲氧羰基苯基 硼酸偶联，并以较好产率合成了八种中心桥连基为哒嗪环，含有苯环、酯基、不同 长度烷氧基的哒嗪衍生物，并通过差示扫描量热法（DSC）对其介晶性进行了表征 ，同时发现其中七种都具有介晶性。研究表明，末端链长度对相变温度和清亮点温 度均有影响。     

单取代二茂铁有机液晶的合成、结构及刚性实对介晶性影响

合成了17个未见报道的中心桥连基为酯基、C==N基,分别含有3-4个苯环,不同刚性实长度以及不同末端链长度的二茂铁化合物,并通过DSC和偏光显微镜对其介晶性进行了表征.研究表明,末端长度对相变温度和清亮温度均有影响,但对相变温度范围影响较小,而刚性实长度对其影响却很大.当刚性实达到一定长度时,末端为H原子也具有介晶性---这是第一个无柔性末端链的金属有机液晶化合物.     

长链烷酸接枝羟丙基纤维素相变材料的制备及其性能

采用酯化的方法将具有相变特征的长链脂肪酸接枝到羟丙基纤维素主链上, 得到了一系列性能稳定, 温度范围适宜的高分子固-固相变材料, 并利用傅里叶红外光谱(FT-IR)、核磁共振(NMR)、差示扫描量热仪(DSC)、热失重分析仪(TGA)和X射线散射等技术手段对其化学结构及相变行为进行了研究。 结果表明, 该材料呈现出可逆的固-固相转变特性, 相变温度范围可通过改变脂肪酸的长度调节。 利用棕榈酸、硬脂酸和花生酸获得的相变材料焓值达到60 J/g, 所获得的材料在250 ℃以内不发生热分解。 通过将两种长链脂肪酸混合同时接枝到羟丙基纤维素主链上, 所得产物的吸/放热温度随着混合脂肪酸组分含量的变化而变化, 同时X射线散射的结果也证明羟丙基纤维素混合酯的分子间距是位于其两种单一酯之间的。这一结果为制备一定温度范围内任意相变温度的高分子固-固相变材料提供了简便的方法。     

无柔性间隔基侧链型液晶高分子复合定形相变材料的制备与性能研究

设计合成了一系列具有不同烷氧基尾链长度的单体4′-烷氧基-4-联苯酚甲基丙烯酸酯Mbi Cm(m=1,2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18),通过自由基聚合方法合成了相应的具有不同烷氧基尾链长度的无柔性间隔基侧链型液晶高分子PMbi Cm,将所得的侧链型液晶高分子和相变材料石蜡按一定质量比混合,通过"加热-冷却法"成功制备了定形相变材料.通过凝胶测试发现当尾链长度为m=12,14,16,18时,高分子对固体石蜡具有良好的凝胶定形效果,且随着烷氧基尾链的增长,聚合物和石蜡的相容性增加,最低凝胶浓度降低,得到定形相变材料的凝胶解缔温度也相应下降.通过示差扫描量热法(DSC)、热重分析法(TG)、流变(Rheology)等测试考察了定形相变材料的相变储能性能、热稳定性和流变性能,实验结果表明该定形相变材料具有相变焓值高、热稳定性好、凝胶强度高等优点.通过红外光谱(FTIR)、偏光显微镜(POM)和扫描电镜(SEM)等测试发现PMbi Cm通过非共价键作用力自聚集形成三维凝胶网络结构,对石蜡起固定支撑作用.     

己基取代的1,4-二(2-噻吩基)苯并[c]哒嗪合成与光谱性质研究

本文设计并合成了一系列含氮原子的缺电子芳香片段,包括以苯并哒嗪作为核心、以富电子噻吩衍生物作为共轭延长链的有机共轭小分子1,4-二(2-噻吩基)苯并[c]哒嗪(5a)、1,4-二[2-(3-己基噻吩基)]苯并[c]哒嗪(5b)和1,4-二[2-(5-己基噻吩基)]苯并[c]哒嗪(5c).通过紫外光谱和荧光光谱研究,证明在共轭体系中的不同位置引入烷基链,可以有效影响化合物的能隙,调节化合物的光电性质.     

Synchronized sailing of two camphor boats in polygonal chambers

The synchronized self-motion of two camphor boats on polygonal water chambers was investigated. The two boats synchronously moved depending on the number of corners in the polygon by changing the distance between the two boats through the corners. We regard the self-motion of a camphor boat as an oscillator; i.e., one cycle on the polygonal chamber corresponds to 2pi. Phase-locked synchronization at a phase difference of 2pi/3, which corresponds to the length of one side of the chamber, was observed with a triangular chamber. Two types of synchronized motion at phase differences of pi/2 and pi, which correspond to the length of one and two sides of the chamber, respectively, were observed with a square chamber. These characteristic features of synchronized self-motion were qualitatively reproduced by a numerical calculation that regarded the surface tension as the driving force and the number of corners in the chamber as a velocity-regulating mechanism. We believe that the present system may be a simple model of synchronization which depends on the geometry of the system.     

Segmental orientation studies of polyether polyurethane block copolymers with different hard segment lengths and distributions

The orientation behavior of two series of segmented polyether polyurethanes containing different hard segment length distributions has been studied as a function of the average hard segment length which was varied from one to five methylene bis (p-phenyl isocyanate) (MDI) units. The orientation behavior of the soft segments, isolated hard segments, and of hard segments aggregated in hard domains was determined from the dichroic behavior of representative infrared bands. As the hard segment length increases, a transition in orientation behavior is observed which corresponds to a change in sample morphology.The effects of annealing and hard segment length distribution were also studied and were shown to affect the orientation response through their influence on sample morphology. Orientation hysteresis studies were performed to probe the mechanism of the transverse orientation and orientation inversion which occurred in polyurethanes with the longer, more crystallizable hard segment lengths.     

Chemomechanics of surface stresses induced by DNA hybridization

When biomolecular reactions occur on one surface of a microcantilever beam, changes in intermolecular forces create surface stresses that bend the cantilever. While this phenomenon has been exploited to create label-free biosensors and biomolecular actuators, the mechanisms through which chemical free energy is transduced to mechanical work in such hybrid systems are not fully understood. To gain insight into these mechanisms, we use DNA hybridization as a model reaction system. We first show that the surface grafting density of single-stranded probe DNA (sspDNA) on a surface is strongly correlated to its radius of gyration in solution, which in turn depends on its persistence length and the DNA chain length. Since the persistence length depends on ionic strength, the grafting density of sspDNA can be controlled by changing a solution's ionic strength. The surface stresses produced by the reaction of complementary single-stranded target DNA (sstDNA) to sspDNA depend on the length of DNA, the grafting density, and the hybridization efficiency. We, however, observe a remarkable trend: regardless of the length and grafting density of sspDNA, the surface stress follows an exponential scaling relation with the density of hybridized sspDNA.     

Dielectric relaxation of polychlorinated biphenyl/toluene mixtures: component dynamics

The dynamics of homogenous polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB54)/toluene mixtures have been investigated by means of broadband dielectric spectroscopy. The mixture presents dynamical heterogeneity, alike miscible polymer blends, which is manifested with the presence of two relaxational processes. The relatively slow one has been attributed to the motion of PCB54 in the mixture, whereas the relatively fast one was related to the toluene dynamics in the mixture. These results have been interpreted according to the self-concentration concept, first introduced to describe the dynamics of miscible polymer blends, which relies on the limited size of the cooperative length scale in glass-forming liquids. The self-concentration concept has been incorporated in the Adam-Gibbs theory of the glass transition relating the characteristic relaxation time and the length scale for structural relaxation to the configurational entropy. This allowed the determination of the cooperative length scale of PCB54 and toluene both in mixture and alone through the fitting of a single parameter, namely, that connecting the cooperative length scale to the configurational entropy. This length scale resulted to be in the range of 1-2 nm for all systems. Finally, the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of toluene induced by the selective freezing in of PCB54 has been examined and its relation to the Johari-Goldstein relaxation of pure toluene was critically discussed.     

Side-chain effect on the structural evolution and properties of poly(9,9-dihexylfluorene-alt-2,5-dialkoxybenzene) copolymers

The structural evolution and properties of poly(9,9-dihexylfluorene-alt-2,5-dialkoxybenzene) with different lengths of alkoxy side chains on phenylene have been systematically investigated by means of thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), X-ray diffraction (XRD), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), polarizing light microscopy (PLM), atomic force microscopy (AFM), and cyclic voltammetry (CV) techniques. The polymer self-organizes into a lamellar structure consisting of both two- and one-layer packing, and the two-layer packing style is the dominant structure. In addition, the two-layer and one-layer packing structures also accompany the presence of planar stacking and/or crystalline and noncrystalline structures, thus maintaining the stability of the packing. PF6OC6 shows three ordered phases (two crystalline phases and one nematic phase) during the heating process. With further increase of the length of alkoxy side chains, only two ordered phases (one crystalline phase and one nematic phase) are observed and the polymers show a melting-recrystallization phenomenon, which is steadily inhibited as the length of the alkoxy side chains increases. The optical and electrochemical properties of the polymers do not exhibit noticeable dependence on the length of the alkoxy side chains. However, the thermal stability, the vibronic structures, and the full width at half-maximum (fwhm) in photoluminescence spectra of the films gradually decrease, and the oxidation onset potentials and the corresponding HOMO energy levels slightly increase with increasing length of alkoxy side chains on phenylene. These results indicate that the length variation of alkoxy side chains does not change the electronic structure of the polymer backbones, but remarkably affects the microphase separation between the flexible side chains and the conjugated backbones.     

Quantum mechanical guides to the potential energy curves of some simple molecules

The molecular orbital expression for the bond energy of a chemical bond is used to obtain some insight into the factors which produce the potential energy curves of a number of simple bonds. The resulting picture of bond formation and the potential energy curve is an electrostatic one and it depicts the potential energy curve as the sum of a long range attractive curve and a short range repulsive one. Broadly speaking, that part of the curve to the long bond length side of the minimum is determined essentially by the two electrons which form the bond and, in particular, by the `binding energy' of these two electrons. The position of the minimum and the shape of the short bond length side of the curve do depend in general on the other valence electrons of the two atoms. The long range attractive curve is easily calculated but it is difficult to get the short range repulsive curve accurately. The results may prove useful in the construction of potential energy surfaces where the long bond length side of the potential energy curve is the important part.     

Synthesis and self-association properties of flexible guanidiniocarbonylpyrrole-carboxylate zwitterions in DMSO: intra- versus intermolecular ion pairing

We have synthesized a new class of flexible zwitterions 6a-e, in which a carboxylate is linked via an alkyl chain with variable length (one to five methylene groups) to a guanidiniocarbonylpyrrole cation. The self-association properties of these zwitterions were determined by NMR dilution studies in DMSO and by ESI-MS experiments. The stability and hence also the size of the aggregates formed via self-assembly is critically dependent on the length and therefore flexibility of the spacer. Whereas the smallest zwitterion 6a forms large aggregates already at low concentrations, the more flexible zwitterions only form small oligomers (6b) or dimers (6c-e) at much larger concentrations. The differences between the five zwitterions can be explained based on the different extent of intramolecular ion pairing within the monomers. Any intramolecular ion pairing, which becomes possible with increasing linker length, stabilizes the monomer and therefore destabilizes any oligomer.     

The Nature of One‐Dimensional Carbon: Polyynic versus Cumulenic

A question of both fundamental as well as practical importance is the nature of one‐dimensional carbon, in particular whether a one‐dimensional carbon allotrope is polyynic or cumulenic, that is, whether bond‐length alternation occurs or not. By combining the concept of aromaticity and antiaromaticity with the rule of Peierls distortion, the occurrence and magnitude of bond‐length alternation in carbon chains with periodic boundary conditions and corresponding carbon rings as a function of the chain or ring length can be explained. The electronic properties of one‐dimensional carbon depend crucially on the bond‐length alternation. Whereas it is generally accepted that carbon chains in the limit of infinite length have a polyynic structure at the minimum of the potential energy surface with bond‐length alternation, we show here that zero‐point vibrations lead to an effective equalization of all carbon–carbon bond lengths and thus to a cumulenic structure.     

Enhanced thermal response of the SAd1 layer thickness in highly fluorinated thermotropic liquid crystals

X-ray studies of a homologous series of rod-shaped liquid crystal molecules with one tail perfluorinated and the other protonated, reveal large decreases in the smectic A layer spacing with increasing temperature. These materials form unique dimer phases in which the smectic layer spacing is dependent on the length of the perfluorinated tail and independent of the length of the protonated tail. The chain statistics of the perfluorinated tail significantly influence the thermal expansion coefficient since the length of the fluorinated tail defines the smectic layer spacing. Thermal expansion coefficients for the layer spacing observed here are negative and nearly an order of magnitude greater than for typical protonated rod-shaped thermotropic liquid crystals in the SA phase.