posted on 2018-05-10, 15:00authored byCarol M. Lawrence
The incorporation of steroidal monomers into main chain polymers has been used to investigate their
potential as mesogenic groups.
Copolymers have been produced from a range of steroid diol monomers coupled with flexible spacer
groups from a series of diacid chlorides with the general formula ClCO(CH2)nCOCl where n=2 to n=12. [Continues.]
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1992
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A Doctoral Thesis. Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy at Loughborough University.