Abstract
Four achiral polymers with V-shaped bent-core mesogens in the main chain have been synthesized by polycondensation, and the effect of acute-angled central cores (Ar= 1,2-phenylene or 2,3-naphthylene) and lateral halogen substituents (X = F or Cl) was studied. All polymers were only soluble in strong acids such as H 2 SO 4 and CF 3 CO 2 H. The solution viscosities were in the range of 0.31―0.81 dL/g. Although polymers contained a V-shaped bent-core mesogen with acute-angled configuration in their main chain, in general they were semicrystalline in the solid state and could form smectic C phases in the melt state. However, polymer with Ar/X 1,2-phenylene/Cl was almost amorphous. Especially, polymer with Ar/X = 2,3-naphthylene/F formed a ferroelectric smectic C phase (SmCP F ), possibly B7 phase: on ground state the spontaneous polarization was not zero (P s = 140 nC cm ―2 ), and on applying an triangular electric field a switching occurred by a collective rotation of the mesogens around the main chain axis.
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