Main‐chain liquid‐crystalline polymers bearing different anion.

In this paper, d-camphoryl chloride, terephthaloyl chloride, hydroquinone and 2,3-dibromosuccinyl chloride were used as raw materials to synthesise the main-chain liquid crystalline polymers by condensation polymerisation. A series of main-chain ionic liquid crystalline polymers with triphenylphosphine as the cationic group were successfully prepared by grafting triphenylphosphine onto the liquid crystalline polymer. By characterisation, we found that the main chain ionic liquid crystal polymer containing quaternary phosphonium ions had low glass transition temperature, high ionic conductivity and strong antibacterial properties. The quaternary phosphonium ions-containing main-chain ionic liquid-crystalline polymers show Smectic A phase, and the main-chain liquid crystalline polymers show nematic phase. The antibacterial experiments showed that the quaternary phosphonium ions-containing main-chain ionic liquid-crystalline polymers had good antibacterial properties, and the antibacterial ability of the polymer was also enhanced with the increase of phosphorus content. In addition, the orientation structure of liquid crystal also had a significant influence on its antibacterial properties. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]