A serial of novel liquid crystalline polymers containing rigid core
flexible spacer and (2S
3S)-4′-(2- chloro-3-methyl pentanoyloxy)-4-hexyloxybiphenyl in side chain were prepared.The intermediates and monomers were characterized by
1
H-NMR and the polymers were characterized by FTIR.Relative molecular weights of the polymers were characterized by GPC.The liquid-crystal behavior of monomers and corresponding polymers were investigated by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and thermal polarized optical microscopy (POM).The result showed that chiral acrylate monomer (P6ACl)exhibited smectic A(S
A
) and smectic B(S
B
) liquid crystalline phases and the corresponding polymer (PP6ACl)exhibited smectic A (S