Abstract
Abstract The chain conformation and molecular packing of isotactic poly(p-fluorostyrene) have been examined using calculations made with semiempirical potential energy functions. Isolated chain conformational energies indicate no difference in conformation for the fluoropolymer from the conformation for isotactic polystyrene. The energy for packing poly(p-fluorostyrene) chains into a crystalline array as 31 or 41 helices was also compared with the energies for packing polystyrene in both of these helical forms. While not being the lowest energy mode of packing for poly(p-fluorostyrene), the packing of 41-helices does yield a local energy minimum. Such packing of 41 helical polystrene chains is considerably less energetically feasible. The results indicate the causes for the experimentally observed difference in the crystalline conformations of the two isotactic polymers as being due to intermolecular influences.
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