SYNTHESIS AND MESOGENIC PROPERTY OF Pd-COORDINATING AZO-TYPE SIDE CHAIN LIQUID CRYSTALLINE POLYSILOXANE

摘要

A novel palladium-coordinating Azo-type liquid crystalline polysiloxane (Pd-AZLCP) has been synthesized by chelation reaction of polymeric ligand, Azo-type liquid crystalline polysiloxane(AZLCP), with palladium dichloride and potassium chloride in the presence of tetrahydrofuran (THF) as reaction medium instead of dioxane/water system, which has been used since Cope first reported the synthesis of palladium-azobenzene in 1965 . The mesogenic behaviors examined by DSC, temperature-variable X-ray diffraction and polarizing microscopy indicate that the incorporation of Pd ions into the liquid crystal polymer can play a positive effect on the mesogenic property of the parent polymeric ligand. It is exhibited that the isotropization temperature T_i is increased and the mesophase range ΔT has been widened, too.