一种侧链液晶高分子的合成与表征

合成了一种主链为甲基丙烯酸酯 ,侧链是三个苯环以酯键相连的介晶基元 ,柔性间隔段为两个亚甲基的新的侧链液晶高分子 .聚合物和单体的化学结构、液晶相转变和液晶态织构采用红外光谱、核磁共振、偏光显微镜、差热分析和广角X光衍射进行了表征 .研究表明 ,单体呈现近晶相和向列相两个液晶相 ,聚合物在很宽的温度范围内呈向列相 .该单体和聚合物在一定条件下可形成固化诱导条带织构     

Mesogenic cinnamates with a substituted ethyl terminal chain

Two new mesogenic homologous series of liquid crystalline cinnamates with substituted ethyl tails, β-methoxyethyl [4-(4'-n-alkoxycinnamoyloxy)benzoates (I) and β-chloroethyl [4-(4'-n-alkoxycinnamoyloxy)benzoates (II), have been synthesized and characterized by a combination of elemental analysis and standard spectroscopic methods. In series I, lower-chain members exhibit nematic mesophase, middle members exhibit enantiotropic nematic as well as smectic A (SmA) mesophases, whereas higher members exhibit only an enantiotropic SmA mesophase. In series II, methoxy to n-butyloxy derivatives exhibit a monotropic nematic mesophase. The SmA mesophase commences from n-propyloxy derivative as monotropic and persists up to the last member synthesized. The mesomorphic properties of present series were compared with each other and with a structurally related mesogenic homologous series to evaluate the effects of substituted ethyl tail and cinnamoyloxy central linkage on mesomorphism.     

Mesomorphic compounds with a rigid T-shaped mesogenic fragment

Mesomorphic polyesters with a rigid T-shaped mesogenic fragment were prepared and studied by polarization optical microscopy, differential scanning calorimetry, and IR and ¹H NMR spectroscopy. An increase in the length of aliphatic substituents in the mesogenic fragment leads to a change from the nematic type of the mesophase to the smectic type.     

Synthesis and mesomorphic behaviour of novel chiral nematic side chain liquid crystalline polysiloxanes

A series of novel thermotropic side chain liquid crystalline polymers was synthesized by grafting copolymerization of a mesogenic monomer, 4-allyloxybenzoyl-4′?-(4-n-alkylbenzoyl)–p-benzenediol bisate and a chiral monomer, menthyl undecylenate. The mesogenic monomers exhibited nematic threadlike textures during heating and cooling. The polymers showed thermotropic liquid crystalline properties with a broad mesomorphic region over a range of 100°C. The polymers exhibited a cholesteric mesophase with a colourful Grand-Jean texture when the content of chiral units was greater than 15?mol?%; the others exhibited nematic threadlike textures. All of the polymers were thermally stable over 300°C, and most were laevorotatory as the chiral monomer.     

New liquid crystalline di- and tetra-acrylates for network formation

New liquid crystalline diacrylates and tetra-acrylates containing four to six aromatic rings were synthesized and characterized, and their mesophase behaviour was investigated. They are designed to be used in combination with chiral molecules to form cholesteric mesophases which can be crosslinked by photopolymerization. The acrylates presented exhibit broad mesophase ranges since mesogenic moieties longer than three are employed. Most diacrylates show no isotropization, due to premature thermal polymerization above 180°C. Additionally, liquid crystalline dipropionates were synthesized as reference compounds which cannot be crosslinked, and selected examples of these exhibit isotropization temperatures as high as 238°C prior to thermal degradation. Substituents at the mesogenic moiety have a great influence on the mesophase characteristics. Bulky substituents such as the tert-butyl group, induce a nematic mesophase, whereas compounds with small substituents (e.g. OCH3) or unsubstituted molecules also exhibit smectic phases. Tetra-acrylates with unsubstituted and substituted mesogenic units feature nematic mesophases only as a result of the additional spacers attached. Here isotropization was observed without polymerization at temperatures around 120-160°C.     

New liquid crystalline di- and tetra-acrylates for network formation

New liquid crystalline diacrylates and tetra-acrylates containing four to six aromatic rings were synthesized and characterized, and their mesophase behaviour was investigated. They are designed to be used in combination with chiral molecules to form cholesteric mesophases which can be crosslinked by photopolymerization. The acrylates presented exhibit broad mesophase ranges since mesogenic moieties longer than three are employed. Most diacrylates show no isotropization, due to premature thermal polymerization above 180°C. Additionally, liquid crystalline dipropionates were synthesized as reference compounds which cannot be crosslinked, and selected examples of these exhibit isotropization temperatures as high as 238°C prior to thermal degradation. Substituents at the mesogenic moiety have a great influence on the mesophase characteristics. Bulky substituents such as the tert-butyl group, induce a nematic mesophase, whereas compounds with small substituents (e.g. OCH3) or unsubstituted molecules also exhibit smectic phases. Tetra-acrylates with unsubstituted and substituted mesogenic units feature nematic mesophases only as a result of the additional spacers attached. Here isotropization was observed without polymerization at temperatures around 120-160°C.     

Synthesis and characterization of liquid crystalline elastomers bearing fluorinated mesogenic units and crosslinking mesogens

Several new side‐chain liquid crystalline (LC) polysiloxanes and elastomers ( IP ‐ VIP ) bearing fluorinated mesogenic units and crosslinking mesogens were synthesized by a one‐step hydrosilylation reaction with poly(methylhydrogeno)siloxane, a fluorine‐containing LC monomer 4′‐undec‐10‐enoyloxy‐biphenyl‐4‐yl 4‐fluoro‐benzoate and a crosslinking LC monomer 4′‐(4‐allyloxy‐benzoxy)‐biphenyl‐4‐yl 4‐allyloxy‐benzoate. The chemical structures and LC properties of the monomers and polymers were characterized by use of various experimental techniques such as FTIR, ¹H‐NMR, EA, TGA, DSC, POM and XRD. The effect of crosslinking mesogens on mesomorphic properties of the fluorinated LC polymers was studied as well. The obtained polymers and elastomers were soluble in many solvents such as toluene, tetrahydrofuran, chloroform, and so forth. The temperatures at which 5% weight loss occurred (T_d) were greater than 250°C for all the polymers, and the weight of residue near 600°C increased slightly with increase of the crosslinking mesogens in the fluorinated polymer systems. The samples IP , IIP , IIIP and IVP showed both smectic A and nematic phases when they were heated and cooled, but VP and VIP exhibited only a nematic mesophase. The glass transition temperature (T_g) of polymers increased slightly with increase of crosslinking mesogens in the polymer systems, but the mesophase–isotropic phase transition temperature (T_i) and smectic A–nematic mesophase transition temperature (T_S‐N) decreased slightly. It suggests that the temperature range of the mesophase became narrow with the increase of crosslinking mesogens for all the fluorinated polymers and elastomers. In XRD curves, the intensity of sharp reflections at low angle decreased with increase of crosslinking mesogens in the fluorinated polymers systems, indicating that the smectic order derived from fluorinated mesogenic units should be destroyed by introduction of more crosslinking mesogens. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Mesogenic cinnamates with a substituted ethyl terminal chain*

Two new mesogenic homologous series of liquid crystalline cinnamates with substituted ethyl tails, β‐methoxyethyl [4‐(4′‐n‐alkoxycinnamoyloxy)benzoates (I) and β‐chloroethyl [4‐(4′‐n‐alkoxycinnamoyloxy)benzoates (II), have been synthesized and characterized by a combination of elemental analysis and standard spectroscopic methods. In series I, lower‐chain members exhibit nematic mesophase, middle members exhibit enantiotropic nematic as well as smectic A (SmA) mesophases, whereas higher members exhibit only an enantiotropic SmA mesophase. In series II, methoxy to n‐butyloxy derivatives exhibit a monotropic nematic mesophase. The SmA mesophase commences from n‐propyloxy derivative as monotropic and persists up to the last member synthesized. The mesomorphic properties of present series were compared with each other and with a structurally related mesogenic homologous series to evaluate the effects of substituted ethyl tail and cinnamoyloxy central linkage on mesomorphism.     

Dependence of Mesomorphic Behaviour of Methylene‐Linked Dimers and the Stability of the NTB/NX Phase upon Choice of Mesogenic Units and Terminal Chain Length

Twelve symmetrical dimeric materials consisting of a nonamethylene (C9) spacer and either phenyl 4‐(4′‐alkylphenyl)benzoate, phenyl 4‐(4′‐alkylcyclohexyl)benzoate or phenyl 4‐(4′‐alkylbicyclohexyl)carboxylate mesogenic units were prepared and their mesogenic behaviour characterised by POM, DSC and XRD. All of the materials exhibited nematic phases with clearing points in excess of 200 °C. Four compounds were found to exhibit the twist‐bend nematic phase, with one material exhibiting a transition from the N_TB phase into an anticlinic smectic ‘X’ phase. Across all three series of compounds the length of terminal chain is seen to dictate, to some degree, the type of mesophase formed: shorter terminal chains favour nematic and N_TB mesophases, whereas longer terminal aliphatic chains were found to promote smectic phases.     

Phase equilibria and photopolymerisation-induced phase transitions of mesogenic diacrylate monomer and low molecular mass liquid crystal mixture

Experimental phase diagrams of binary mesogenic mixtures of reactive mesogenic diacrylate (RM257) monomer and low molar mass liquid crystals (E7) were determined by means of differential scanning calorimetry and optical microscopy. The combined free energy densities of Flory–Huggins for liquid–liquid demixing, Maier–Saupe for nematic ordering, and phase field free energy for crystal solidification was proposed to describe the phase diagrams of the starting E7/RM257 mixtures. The phase diagram thus constructed is an ideal mixing type, exhibiting a narrow loop of isotropic + nematic (I + N) coexistence region followed by the crystal + nematic (Cr1 + N) region in descending order of temperature. Of particular interest is the permanent fixation of the mesophase structures upon photopolymerisation of neat RM257 in the corresponding nematic and crystalline phases. Upon photopolymerisation of a low RM257 content mixture in both isotropic and nematic states, the nematic–isotropic transition of E7 was found to persist. The permanent structural anchoring is seen upon photo-curing of the 90/10 RM257/E7 mixture in the crystalline state.     

Liquid Crystalline Organisation and Reaction Rate in the Formation of Liquid Crystal Thermoset Networks from Diepoxides and Dicyanates

Summary: The influence of the type of mesophase on the rate of reaction in amine curing or anionic polymerisation of mesogenic diepoxides, and in the cyclotrimerisation of mesogenic dicyanates has been investigated by isothermal DSC and IR-spectroscopy. Epoxide/amine systems were found to react faster in the nematic than in the isotropic phase. Anionic polymerisation of epoxides is an example where increase of the reaction rate occurs with the transition from a mesophase of higher order (smectic) to phases with lower order (nematic, isotropic). For triaromatic dicyanates with one or three methyl groups at the central ring cyclotrimerisation is faster in the isotropic than in the nematic phase showing an increase of activation energy in the nematic phase with the number of methyl groups. A pronounced rate increase has been observed in the smectic phase as compared to the nematic phase for the unsubstituted triaromatic dicyanate. In this case activation energies in the two phases are comparable with those of non liquid crystalline dicyanates.     

Liquid crystalline properties of a series of thermotropic copolyesters containing both mesogenic and nonmesogenic units

A series of copolymers containing triad ester mesogenic units, with pendent n-octyl substituents, and triad ester nonmesogenic units, both with flexible spacer groups, was prepared and characterized for the effect of the nonmesogenic unit content on transition temperatures and thermodynamic parameters. The mesophase temperature range increased, but temperature, enthalpy, and entropy of isotropization decreased in a linear manner with increasing nonmesogen comonomer content. The entropy of isotropization is considered to be a quantitative measure of the degree of order of the nematic phase, but this order may include both the amount and the order parameter of the mesophase if, as proposed, both the isotropic and nematic phase exist below the isotropization temperatures of the copolymers.     

An X-ray diffraction study of the different nematic mesophases of liquid-crystalline poly(urethane-ester)s

An x-ray investigation on powder specimens and stretched oriented fibers of poly(urethaneester)s TDI-CmCn, derived from various mesogenic alkylene di[4-(ω-hydroxyalkyloxy-4-oxybenzoyl)oxybenzoate]s (CmCn; m = 2, 4, or 6, and n = 4, 6, 8, or 10) and 2, 4-toluenediisocyanate (TDI), is reported. Evidence is provided for the formation of two different nematic mesophases in the polymers, namely a cybotactic nematic and a conventional nematic mesophase. Whereas samples TDI-C2C6, TDI-C6C4, and TDI-C6C10 formed one cybotactic nematic mesophase, samples TDI-C4C6, TDI-C6C6, and TDI-C6C8 exhibited both cybotactic nematic and conventional nematic mesophases in a sequence with increasing temperature, which were connected by a first-order transition. The analysis of the various features of the small-angle x-ray diffraction patterns indicates that two structural arrangements, namely smectic C-like and conventional nematic structures, coexist inside the cybotactic nematic mesophase of these poly(urethane-ester)s. © 1995 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

二代树状碳硅烷液晶研究——端基含36个己氧基偶氮苯介晶基元

用发散法合成周边含36个己氧基偶氮苯介晶基元(M3)端基的新的二代树状碳硅烷液晶(D2),并用元素分析、氢谱、激光质谱、红外光谱、紫外-可见光谱、偏光显微镜,DSC和WAXD法进行表征.D2为向列相,与M3相同.D2液晶态相行为是K90N105I1l3N75K,D2熔点比M3降低2633℃,D2清亮点比M3降低315℃,D2液晶态温区比M3加宽1130℃.D2和一代树状物D1的相态由介晶基元相态决定.D2熔点比D1降低23℃.D2清亮点比D1降低1121℃,D2液晶态温区比D1减少819℃.     

Shear induced structuration of liquid crystalline epoxy thermosets

Low-molecular weight liquid crystals (LC) have wide technological applications due to their self-assembly in the mesophase. An azomethine nematic monomer based on diglycidyl functionalized mesogenic core and without spacers has been cured with a diamine. The great affinity of LC epoxy to the formation of ordered structures introduces a spatial driving force into the process of curing. Thermal and LC behaviors were investigated by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and polarized optical microscopy (POM). The nature of the LC phases was confirmed by X-ray diffraction. Rheological experiments were conducted during crosslinking at different shear stresses. The viscosity of the mixture is strongly decreasing by three orders of magnitude when the solid epoxy is melting into a LC phase, and is increasing again due to the curing. Unexpected results were found. Applying a stress during curing had a profound influence on the ordering of the structure. The material becomes isotropic if a small shear stress is applied. Then, the higher the stress is, more ordered the final material is. For the highest stresses, the final material is in a highly ordered, quasi-crystalline, smectic structure.     

Side-chain liquid crystalline polyesters derived from diethylmalonate and/or 1,3-propanediol

A series of azo monomers for polycondensation have been synthesized and characterized. These monomers, which contain electron-donor or acceptor substituents, have been condensed with aliphatic monomers to obtain two different series of aliphatic main-chain polyesters with pendant mesogenic groups. The polymers display nematic or smectic phases depending on the structural modifications of pendant mesogenic groups and the length of the flexible main-chain. In addition to these series, two polyesters with a high concentration of side pro-mesogenic groups have been synthesized. © 1996 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

Mesogenic behaviour of two series of orthopalladated polar inline derivatives and their organic ligands (II)

One series of 4-n-octyl-N-(4-X-benzylidene)anilines and two series of polar orthopalladated complexes derived from these of type Pd₂(μ-Y)₂ p-X-C₆H₃-CH = N-C₆H₄-C₈H₁₇₂; X: -H, -F, -Cl, -Br, -NO₂, -CN, -CH₃, -OCH₃, -CF₃, -COOCH₃, -OCOCH₃ and -OCOQH₅; Y: -OAc and -Cl; have been synthesized and their mesogenic properties studied. In the polar Schiff bases used as organic ligands, the polar end group determines both the presence of the mesophase and the type of mesophase exhibited. In the complexes, however, it is the central structure of the molecule that practically always determines mesogenic behaviour. No acetato-bridged complex is mesogenic. All the chloro-bridged complexes, however, show mesogenic behaviour. All these compounds show smectic A mesophases with the exception of the CN compound, which only exhibits a nematic mesophase.     

一种新型甲壳型液晶高分子的设计与合成

甲壳型液晶高分子是我国科学家最早设计和合成、受到国际学术界广泛关注的一类新型液晶高分子[1～ 6 ] .迄今已合成出 1 0个系列 1 0 0多种甲壳型液晶高分子 ,其中多数以乙烯基氢醌 [7] 、乙烯基对苯二胺 [8] 、乙烯基对苯二甲酸 [9] 和 2 -羟基 - 5-氨基苯乙烯 [10 ] 为关键中间体 .液晶核由 3个苯环以— COO—或— CONH—连接而成 .由于— COO—和— CONH—易与阳离子和阴离子相互作用 ,故已报道的甲壳型液晶高分子都是由自由基聚合反应制得 ,而很难用离子型聚合反应合成 .本文设计合成了一类未见文献报道的小分子液晶化合物 ,由此…     

Thermotropic copolyamides from triethyleneglycol bis(4-carboxyphenyl)ether,aromatic diamines,and p-aminobenzoic acid modified by the monomer sequences in the copolyamides

Copolycondensations of triethyleneglycol bis(4-carboxyphenyl)ether (PEG₃), p-amino-benzoic acid (PABA), and p-phenylenediamine (PPD) were studied in order to examine the effect of monomer sequences in the copolyamides upon the transition temperatures of the resulting copolymers. Random copolymerization of these monomers resulted in the copolymers exhibiting a nematic mesophase in a wide range of PABA content. On the other hand, the sequential copolymers composed of PABA/PPD = 1/1 and 2/1, which were prepared from 4,4′-diaminobenzanilide (DABA) and N,N′-bis(4-aminobenzoyl)-p-phenylenediamine (BAB-PPD), respectively, did not show a mesophase. The copolymers of a diamine combination of DABA and PPD exhibited a nematic mesophase, despite the lack of a mesophase for each homopolymer. The combinations of DABA and other diamines were also examined. © 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

芳香─脂肪族共聚酰胺的序列结构和溶致液晶性能

本文利用对苯二甲酰氯（ＴＰＣ），对苯二胺（ＰＰＤ）和亚甲基数为２和６的两种脂肪族二元胺（ＡＤＡ）合成了具有不同序列结构的芳香一脂肪族共聚酰胺．研究了共聚酰胺的序列结构参数──无规度Ｂ和数均序列长度Ｌｎ与液晶临界浓度Ｃ＊和中介相的类型之间的关系．