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JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY A-CHEMISTRY
Volume 185, Issue 2-3, Pages 338-344Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotochem.2006.06.029
Keywords
bisazobenzene-based polymer; helical arrangement; liquid crystalline; photoinduced chirality; azobenzene chromophore
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One new liquid crystalline polymer containing bisazobenzene, poly [4-{(2-methacryloyloxyethyl)oxy}-4'-(4-nitrophenylazo)azobenzene] (PM2BAN), and two liquid crystalline polymers containing azobenzenes with spacers of two and six methylene units, poly[(4-(4'-nitrophenylazo)phenyloxy)x-methylene methacrylate] (PMxAN, x = 2, 6), were synthesized and characterized. The level and rate of photoinduced chirality were studied in films of the achiral polymers by irradiation with one handed circularly polarized light (CPL) at 442 nm. The results of circular dichroism (CD) suggest that left-CPL induces left helical arrangements of the polymers and right-CPL reverses the resulting arrangements into right helices. Photoinduced chirality in film of PM2BAN is increased with the increase of irradiation time. However, the level and rate of photoinduced chirality in film of PM2BAN are lower than those in films of PMxAN (x = 2, 6) at similar irradiation time. Compared with PM2AN, photoinduced CD values are higher in PM6AN. The results are discussed in terms of interactions between azobenzene chromophores and circularly polarized light. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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