S. S. Bukalov, M. V. Teplitsky, L. A. Leites, Ch.-H. Yuan, R. West, “Complex thermochromic phase transitions in three polydialkylsilanes with an oxygen atom in the side chain”, Mendeleev Commun., 1996, Volume 6, Issue 4,Pages <nobr>135

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Complex thermochromic phase transitions in three polydialkylsilanes with an oxygen atom in the side chain

S. S. Bukalov^a, M. V. Teplitsky^a, L. A. Leites^a, Ch.-H. Yuan^b, R. West^b

^a Scientific and Technical Centre on Raman Spectroscopy, A.N. Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
^b Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

Abstract: Temperature investigations of the UV and Raman spectra of three polydialkylsilanes with an oxygen atom in the side chain have shown that all polymers studied undergo a thermochromic phase transition in the interval from+20 to −70 °C which is not abrupt but is kinetically limited; this transition is of the order–disorder type and is related to a change in the conformation of the polymer main chain from a disordered one to all-trans.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1070/MC1996v006n04ABEH000615