The Synthesis, Polymerization and Second Order Non-Linear Optical Properties of Novel, Conjugated, Unsymmetrical Diacetylenes Showing Liquid Crystal Behaviour
- 1 October 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Liquid Crystals
- Vol. 3 (10), 1393-1400
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02678298808086619
Abstract
A number of novel, conjugated, unsymmetrically disubstituted diphenyl-diacetylenes have been synthesized and polymerized in the liquid-crystalline phase to yield liquid-crystalline polymers. The efficiency of second harmonic generation is reported for both monomers and polymers.Keywords
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