Abstract
New benzidine-based oligomers containing four Schiff base arms with terminal alkoxy chains CnH2n+1 (n = 6–12) were characterized by elemental, spectroscopic (UV, FT-IR, and NMR) and DFT techniques. The thermal-optical behaviors were observed using differential calorimetry and polarized optical microscope. Upon heating the molecules with n = 8, 10, and 12 exhibited endothermic peaks characteristic of the crystal-soft crystal B transition in addition to crystal-crystal subphases. It can be generalized that all oligomers showed unusual curing temperature of which the compounds with odd alkoxy chain carbon numbers possess lower curing temperatures in comparison with the analogous compounds of even parity.
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