%0 Journal Article
%T Synthesis and Properties of an N
%A Jacqueline A. Clipson
%A John W. Brown
%A Moayad Almasri
%A Peter J. S. Foot
%J Polymers and Polymer Composites
%@ 1478-2391
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/096739111802600402
%X The synthesis and characterisation of two pyrrole monomers substituted at the N-position with a liquid crystal group are reported. Polymerisation of one of these compounds produced a soluble liquid crystalline semiconducting polymer. The side-chain of the polymer had a flexible spacer of nine methylene units, terminated by a mesogenic cyanobiphenyl group. The new compounds were chemically characterised and were found by hot-stage polarised optical microscopy to exhibit liquid crystal mesophases. The polymer was lightly doped p-type by exposure to iodine vapour, and its electrical conductivity was measured. The polymer synthesis and doping/dedoping processes were also briefly studied by cyclic voltammetry
%K conducting polymer
%K liquid crystal
%K side-chain
%K polypyrrole
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/096739111802600402