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## Abstract A new series of chiral liquid‐crystalline poly(vinyl ether)s was synthesized by cationic polymerization of the corresponding vinyl ether monomers. They consisted of a biphenyl mesogenic unit bearing an __(S)__‐2‐methylbutyl chiral substituent and spaced via an alkyl segment of varying number __x__ of methylene groups. Different initiators and experimental conditions were used for the polymerization reactions. All the samples were semicrystalline, and smectic C and A sequential mesophases were formed in polymers comprising a sufficiently long spacer segment (__x__ > 8). X‐ray diffraction measurements were performed on unoriented specimens. In the smectic C phase, the occurrence of different orders of X‐ray reflection on the smectic layers enabled drawing of the electron density profiles along the layer normal. By simple model considerations it was possible to choose the most physically acceptable one and to identify the low temperature mesophase as double layer smectic C.

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Author

Emo Chiellini; Eleftheria Dossi; Giancarlo Galli; Roberto Solaro; Bernard Gallot

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Ltd.; Wiley (ISSN 1022-1352)

Published

1995

Language

EN

Field

Materials Science (Physical Sciences)