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. 2019 Jul;29(4):1049-1056.
doi: 10.1007/s10895-019-02418-9. Epub 2019 Jul 23.

Optical Properties of Azo-Benzothiazole Side Chain Liquid Crystalline Polymers: Effect of Solvents, Substituents and Temperatures

Nur Syafiqah Farhanah Dzulkharnien  1 , Md Rabiul Karim  2 , N Idayu Zahid  1 , Nor Mas Mira A Rahman  1 , Iskandar Abdullah  1 , Noordini M Salleh  3
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Optical Properties of Azo-Benzothiazole Side Chain Liquid Crystalline Polymers: Effect of Solvents, Substituents and Temperatures

Nur Syafiqah Farhanah Dzulkharnien et al. J Fluoresc. 2019 Jul.

Abstract

The optical properties of a series of side chain liquid crystalline polymers (P1-P3) containing azo-benzothiazole mesogen with different terminal substituents (-H, -CH3 and -OCH2CH3) in four organic solvents of varying polarity have been investigated by absorption and fluorescence spectral analysis. Solvatochromic studies of P1-P3 did not show any regular variation on the absorption and emission intensities with changing the polarity of solvent. Theoretical studies were performed based on different solvent correlation methods such as Dimroth-Reichardt and Kamlet-Taft methods to investigate the solute-solvent interactions. Both absorption and emission maxima of investigated polymers were bathochromically shifted with the replacement of sixth position hydrogen atom by electron donating groups in benzothiazole moiety. The emission intensities of the studied polymers showed decreasing trend with increasing temperature.

Keywords: Azo-benzothiazole; Side chain liquid crystalline polymer; Solvatochromism; Thermochromism.

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