Exactly alternating silarylene-siloxane polymers. III. Structure-property relationships for polymers containing p-phenylene and p,p′-diphenyl ether silarylene units

A series of 12 different exactly alternating silarylene-siloxane polymers was prepared by low temperature condensation polymerization of arylenedisilanol with bisureidosilane monomers. The structural characterization of the polymers was carried out by ¹H NMR spectroscopy, ¹³C NMR spectroscopy, infrared (IR) spectrometry, gel permeation chromatography (GPC). dilute solution viscometry, and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). Homopolymers and copolymers that contained either or both p-phenylene and p,p′-diphenyl ether units in the silarylene group and dimethyl or methylvinyl units in the siloxane group were prepared in high molecular weights.