SYNTHESIS AND PHOTOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF NOVEL AZOQUINOLINE CONTAINING POLYMERS

The development of modern technologies are constantly requires seeking new low-cost, efficient materials and establish new technical methods for application these materials. Synthesis of polymers with predicted and expected properties on the one hand and using specific features of interaction light with photoactive fragments in polymers, on the other hand, opens new prospects of application for new materials based on these polymers. The side chain methacrylic polymers with different active functional group have been well studied and widely applied in many fields, such as optoelectronics, nonlinear optics, optical storage materials, biochemicals, and medicine. The present work focused on synthesis new azostyrylcontaining methacrylic monomers and copolymers with methylmetacrylate (MMA) based on these monomers. The pre­sent study is a first reported notice of the synthesis and photochemical properties of methacrylic polymers with 6-azo-phenylquinoline frag­ments in side chain. Moreover in this work the features of syntheses have been described in detail for monomers and polymers based on new azocompounds. Absorption spectroscopic properties for new quinoline polymers with azo fragment were investigated with UV-Vi­sible spectrophotometry in THF solutions. All studi­ed polymers show a strong absorption band in the range of 300–375 nm resulting from π-π* electronic transition and a weak absorption band in the range of 400–490 nm assigned to n-π* transitions. Electron donating and electron withdrawing substituents at quinoline moity of azo-quinoline polymer solutions lead to bathochromic shift of the π-π*absorption band which agrees well with the result of work. We found that this red-shift increases with an increase of electron donating strength of the substituent as well as with an increase of electron withdrawing strength of the substituent. Based on of the result achieved we can suppose that irradiation of polymers with azo fragment lead to photoinduced trans-cis-isomerization. From the obtained and presented results one can conclude that novel quinoline polymers with azo fragment can be considered as promising materials for applications requiring photosensitivity in certain of range of wavelength.