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Side chain liquid crystal polyacrylate and polymethacrylate nickel complexes free from covalent cross-linking
Styring, Peter,Saez, Isabel M.
, p. 491/[1533]-502/[1544] (2004)
Non-symmetrical nickel(II) complexes containing a single acrylate or methacrylate motif have been synthesised and polymerised radically in tetrahydrofuran solution using AIBN as the initiator. This results in the incorporation of the metal complexes into a polyacrylate and a polymethacrylate as freely mobile side chains, free from cross-linking. Whilst the monomers are non-liquid crystalline, the polymers show smectic A liquid crystal phases.
