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Cirality induction in liquid crystalline side-chain polyethers prepared by copolymerization of oxiranes with mesogenic and non mesogenic groups

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Copolymers prepared by anionic initiation from racemic or optically active styrene oxide and a racemic oxirane bearing cyanobiphenyl mesogenic group in the side chain are liquid crystalline when the content of the mesogenic monomer exceeds 60 mole %. Copolymers prepared from a mesogenic oxirane with a short spacer and racemic styrene oxide exhibit a nematic phase, while those prepared with optically active styrene oxideexhibit a cholesteric phase, thus indicating a transfer of chirality from themain chain towards the mesophase. Such a transfer of chirality is no more observed in the case of a copolymer prepared from a mesogenic oxirane with a long spacer.

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  1. Laboratoire de Chimie Macromoléculaire, URA 24, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 4, place Jussieu, F-75952, Paris Cedex 05, France

    Nicolas Spassky & Anne Sousa Delgado

  2. Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie Structurale et Macromoléculaire, URA 278, Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielles de Paris, 10, rue Vauquelin, F-75231, Paris Cedex 05, France

    Claudine Noël

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Spassky, N., Delgado, A.S. & Noël, C. Cirality induction in liquid crystalline side-chain polyethers prepared by copolymerization of oxiranes with mesogenic and non mesogenic groups. Polymer Bulletin 38, 157–164 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002890050032

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