Alkyl-substituted polysiloxanes

Thermal and Rheological Properties of Alkyl-Substituted Polysiloxanes... 

Applications. Polymers with small alkyl substituents, particularly (13), are ideal candidates for elastomer formulation because of quite low temperature flexibility, hydrolytic and chemical stability, and high temperature stability. The ability to readily incorporate other substituents (in addition to methyl), particularly vinyl groups, should provide for conventional cure sites. In light of the biocompatibility of polysiloxanes and P—O- and P—N-substituted polyphosphazenes, poly(alkyl/arylphosphazenes) are also likely to be biocompatible polymers. Therefore, biomedical applications can also be envisaged for (3). A third potential application is in the area of solid-state batteries. The first steps toward ionic conductivity have been observed with polymers (13) and (15) using lithium and silver salts (78). 

It is interesting to note, that in the alkylation of phenol with isobutene, a change in temperature seems also to change the course of the alkylation reaction with the polysiloxane based catalysts. The principal reaction pathways to the main substitution products (according to the theory for electrophilic substitution, only very small amounts of meta-alkylation products are observed) are given in fig. 5. 

Comparison data were presented, that demonstrate the use of the polysiloxane material as an advantageous substitute for organic cation exchange resins, sulfuric acid, p-toluene sulfonic acid and acidic zeolites. It is demonstrated, that materials like 1 and 2 are cost-efficient and reliable catalysts in esterification, alkylation, and condensation, whereas use of the bifunctional catalyst 3 gives excellent conversions in hydrogenolysis reactions in general. 

The selective stationary phases were further divided in the scheme proposed by Horning et al. [79] for the steroid separations into the types selective to alcohols, ketones, multiple bonds, etc. Here, various selective interactions between the column and the separated solutes are utilized. Most importantly, various polyglycols, polyesters, polyphenyl ethers, polyamides and polyimides belong to these categories. In addition, substitution of an alkyl group in a polysiloxane polymer by a more polar... 

Till now only few examples of discotic liquid crystalline polymers are known. In the first example described in literature (1),hexasubstituted triphenylene cores as discotic sidegroups, are linked to a polysiloxane backbone via a flexible alkyl spacer. Discotic main chain polymers (2,3) posses as disclike core benzene or tripenylene derivatives with the same high degree of substitution, i.e. six. 

FIGURE 12.9 Silicone rubbers (polysiloxane). Note The alkyl group is often substituted with a variety of different groups. 

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