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MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 31, Issue 20, Pages 1791-1797Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/marc.201000218
Keywords
azo polymers; click chemistry; cyclic polymers; isomer/isomerization; step-growth polymerization
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [20874069, 50803044, 20904036, 20974071]
- Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education [200802850005]
- Program of Innovative Research Team of Soochow University
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A novel main-chain azobenzene cyclic polymer, cyclic-PEHPA, has been successfully synthesized by 'click' cyclization of the alpha-alkyne-omega-azido hetero-difunctional linear precursors (linear-PEHPA), which is synthesized by a step-growth polymerization of the 3'-ethynylphenyl[4-hexyl-(2-azido-2-methyl- propionate) phenyl] azobenzene (EHPA). Gel permeation chromatography, and H-1 NMR and FT-IR spectra confirmed the complete transformation of linear-PEHPA into cyclic-PEHPA. With the same molecular weights, the cyclic-PEHPAs are found to have higher glass transition temperatures than the linear-PEHPAs, but almost the same decomposition temperatures. In addition, the obtained cyclic azobenzene polymer with lower molar mass shows a slightly better trans-cis-trans photoisomerization ability than the corresponding linear-PEHPA.
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