Semirigid Homo- and Copoly(Imide-Carbonate)s Based on 3,4,3″,4″ -p-Terphenyltetracarboxdiimide
Novel thermotropic liquid crystalline (LC) semirigid homo- and copoly(imidecarbonate)s composed of a 3, 4, 3″, 4″- p-terphenyltetracarboxdiimide ring and aliphatic chains were prepared by melt polycondensation of a dihexanol derivative of 3, 4, 3″, 4″- p-terphenyltetracarboxdiimide and/or a dioxydihexanol of biphenyl taken in a definite molar ratio with hexamethylene diphenyl dicarbonate in the presence of zinc acetate, and their thermal and mesogenic properties were evaluated. The assigned structures of polymers were characterized by FT-IR and 13C NMR spectroscopy, and elemental analyses. DSC and TG-DTA measurements, polarizing microscope observations of textures and temperature-dependent x-ray analyses demonstrated that the polymers have wider LC temperature ranges (nematic phase) than analogous semirigid poly(ester-imide)s and are thermally stable up to 300 °C in air.