Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, Vol.443, 219-228, 2005
Even-odd effect of chain length on glass-forming property of oligosilylenes
Novel family of molecular glasses based on silicon-containing compounds, alpha,omega-dimethyloligo(diphenylsilylene)s are synthesized and characterized. Glass-forming properties of these materials had even-odd effect of chain length. Glassy samples were found mainly amorphous with low degree of two-dimensional order of hexagonal packing.
Keywords:sigma-conjugated system;even-odd effect;glass-forming property;oligosilylenes;well-defined structures