Functionality and stereochemical design of silicon-containing polymers

✍ Scribed by Yusuke Kawakami; Ichiro Imae

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 151 KB
• Volume: 200
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1022-1352
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1521-3935(19990601)200:6<1245::aid-macp1245>3.0.co;2-8

✦ Synopsis

Molecular design and precision synthesis of silicon-containing polymers are described. The low rotational barrier energy around the silicon-oxygen bond was taken advantage of in designing a selectively oxygen permeable membrane material and new side-chain liquid crystalline polymers. The low surface free energy of polysiloxane graft copolymers was utilized in surface modification of a film consisting of a blend. Syntheses of stereoregular and/or optically active silicon-containing polymers from optically active silicon compounds are presented as well.