Polymers methine-linked

Cyclopolymerizations of other 1,6-dienes afford varying ratios of five- and six-membered ring products depending on the substitution pattern of the starting diene. Substitution of the olefinic methine hydrogen (e.g. 11, R- CH3) causes a shift from five- to six-membered ring formation. More bulky R substituents can prevent efficient cvclization and cross-linked polymers may result. 

Optical properties of cyanines can be usefiil for both chiral substituents/environments and also third-order nonlinear optical properties in polymer films. Methine-chain substituted die arbo cyanines have been prepared from a chiral dialdehyde (S)-(+)-2-j -butylmalonaldehyde [127473-57-8] (79), where the chiral properties are introduced via the chiral j -butyl group on the central methine carbon of the pentamethine (die arbo cyanine) chromophore. For a nonchiral oxadicarbocyanine, the dimeric aggregate form of the dye shows circular dichroism when trapped in y-cyclodextrin (80). Attempts to prepare polymers with carbocyanine repeat units (linked by flexible chains) gave oligomers with only two or three repeat units (81). However, these materials... 

In the case of partly modified polymers the spectra B, C and D show more complicated structures which can be presumably due to significant neighbouring-groups effects between phenyl carbonate groups and modified or unmodified groups linked to the next aliphatic methine carbon atoms. 

In another study, Arkin and Hazer modified the PHA-Cl into quaternary ammonium salts, thiosulfate moieties and phenyl derivatives. In addition, they cross-linked the modified PHA-Cl with benzene by electrophilic aromatic substitution using a Friedel-Crafts reaction. The random composition of PHA-Cl was calculated from its H NMR spectrum by comparing the relative peak areas of the methine protons on the polymer backbone. Hence, increased chlorination of the methyl protons caused the peak of methine protons to be moved further downfield. In addition, the PHA-Cl mole fractions were calculated by comparing the peak areas of protons on chlorinated a-carbons and protons on p-carbons. Samsuddin et al. ° described a process for the direct fluorination of PHBHHx at elevated pressure in the... 

Hanack et al. [145-148] have developed a series of polyarenemethylidenes that are copolymers containing mixtures of pyrrole, thiophene, thieno[c]thiophene, and isothianaphthene rings linked by a methine carbon (LXXXII). These polymers are characterized by having low Eaup values (—1.0 eV). 

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