Two new functional polyacetylenes bearing different azobenzene group, -{ HC=C[azo-N （CH3）CH2CH2OH] } n-, [poly（EHAB）; azo = 4,4＇-azobenzene] and - { HC=C[azo-N（CH3）CH2CH2O COC3H7]},-, [poly（EEAB）]} were prepared by [Rh（nbd）Cl]2-Et3N catalysts. Poly（EHAB） has poor solubility while poly（EEAB） can be dissolved in common solvent. The polymers were characterized by FHR, ^1H NMR, UV and GPC. The nonlinear optical property of the soluble poly（EEAB） was investigated with 8 ns width pulse at 532 nm by Z-scan technique. The results show that poly（EEAB） is endowed with the larger third-order nonlinear optical property.
Shou Chun YINGang LIHong Yao XUYa Chen GAOYin Lin SONG
Hybrid polymers, poly(vinyl pyrrolidone-co-isobutyl styryl polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes)s (PVP-POSS) were synthesized by one step polymerization and characterized using GPC and DSC. Addition of POSS significantly increases the Tg of polyvinylpyrrolidone at a fair high POSS content and obtained high molecular weight polymers with very narrow molecular distribution. The POSS content in the resulted hybrids can be controlled by varying the POSS feed ratio.
Two novel polyacetylenes bearing nonlinear optical chromophoric group poly（3-（4-[4-（n-butyloxy） phenylazophenyl]carbonyl）oxy-1-propyne） （poly（1a）） and poly（3-（4-[4-（n-heptyloxy）phenylazophenyl]carbonyl）-oxy-l- propyne） （poly（lb）） were synthesized with [Rh（nbd）Cl]2-EtaN as catalysts. These polyacetylenes are soluble by using an alkyl spacer and an alkyloxyl group as a substituent. They were characterized by FTIR, NMR, GPC and UV-Vis and their optical limiting and nonlinear optical properties were investigated using 8 ns pulse at 532 nm wavenumber. The results show that these soluble functional polyacetylenes possess optical limiting properties and large nonlinear optical properties and poly（1b） possesses better optical limiting and nonlinear optical properties than poly（ 1 a）.
