Parent homopolymers of liquid crystalline polyesters
- 1 January 1989
- journal article
- polymeric liquid-crystals
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Liquid Crystals
- Vol. 5 (5), 1603-1618
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02678298908027795
Abstract
A method that combines multi-temperature powder X-ray diffraction and molecular modelling is used to determine the high temperature crystal structures for poly-(p-phenylene terephthalate) (PPT) and poly-(p-hydroxybenzoic acid) (PHBA). Both have high temperature structures characterized by a degree of rotational disorder. In the case of PHBA there is a distinct high temperature phase above a well defined transition at 350°C, whereas the rotational disorder in ‘as polymerized’ PPT increases gradually between 370 and 475°C. The interchain packing at high temperatures still maintains phenyl edge to phenyl face correlations and, to some degree, carbonyl carbon to carbonyl oxygen contacts. The findings are relevant to the molecular structure and phase behaviour of liquid-crystalline polyesters as a class.Keywords
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