Synthesis of highly refractive polyimides derived from 3,6‐bis(4‐aminophenylenesulfanyl)pyridazine and 4,6‐bis(4‐aminophenylenesulfanyl)pyrimidine |
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| Authors: | Nam‐Ho You Yasuhiro Nakamura Yasuo Suzuki Tomoya Higashihara Shinji Ando Mitsuru Ueda |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Organic and Polymeric Materials, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2‐12‐1, H‐120, O‐okayama, Meguro‐ku, Tokyo 152‐8552, Japan |
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| Abstract: | A series of aromatic polyimides (PIs) containing pyridazine or pyrimidine in their main chains has been developed. All of the PIs were prepared from newly synthesized diamines, 3,6‐bis(4‐aminophenylenesulfanyl)pyridazine (APP), 4,6‐bis(4‐aminophenylenesulfanyl)pyrimidine (APPM) and aromatic dianhydrides, 4,4′‐[p‐thiobis(phenylenesulfanyl)]diphthalic anhydride (3SDEA) and 4,4′‐oxydiphthalic anhydride (ODPA) via the conventional two‐step polycondensation. The PIs showed good thermal stability with 10% weight loss at temperatures above 450 °C and glass transition temperatures above 190 °C. Films with a 10‐μm thickness exhibited good optical transparency above 80% at 500 nm, high refractive indices ranging from 1.7218 to 1.7499, and low birefringence between 0.0066 and 0.0102. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 47: 4886–4984, 2009 |
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| Keywords: | high performance polymers highly refractive index polyimides pyridazine pyrimidine refractive index |
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