**Acknowledgement**

The author would like to thank University Sains Malaysia for short term grant no.304.PTEKIND.6311031 and the fellowship scheme for funding the research.

## **4. References**


mesogenic units as chain extender. Journal of polymer science part A: Polymer chemistry, Vol.34, pp. 771-779

**Chapter 3** 

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**The Modification of Polyurethanes** 

**by Highly Ordered Coordination** 

**Compounds of Transition Metals** 

Additional information is available at the end of the chapter

http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/47990

**1. Introduction** 

2001).

Ruslan Davletbaev, Ilsiya Davletbaeva and Olesya Gumerova

One of the ways to influence the chemical structure of polyurethanes is to use metal complex systems based on transition metal chlorides for their synthesis. The significance of this trend is conditioned by the ability of metal complexes to order the macromolecular chains, as well as affect the electrical properties of polyurethanes (Davletbaeva et al., 1996,

The synthesis of metal coordination polymers is a way of affecting the processes of crosslinking of macrochains; interchain and intraionic interactions; and, thereby, preparing polymer materials with special properties (Dirk et al., 1986; Kingsborough & Swager, 1999; Reynolds et al., 1985; Thuchide & Nishide, 1977; Wang & Reynolds, 1988). From the standpoint of designing materials with electric and magnetic properties, it is promising to form in a polymer matrix chains of transition metal ions bound by exchange interaction.

Conventional methods for the creation of interactions of this type in a polymer are primarily based on the presence of certain units in a macromolecule, e.g., those including the phthalocyanine and azomethine moieties. For example, metal atoms in metal phthalocyanine liquid crystalline complexes are bound to one another by chloride bridges and play the role of a spacer between phthalocyanine units, thus promoting overlap of

As a result, the electric conductivity of metal-coordination polymers obtained on the basis of these complexes is increased by a few orders of magnitude relative to undoped systems. The coordination bonding of comb-like liquid crystalline polymers can also give rise to stacked structures. Interaction between metal ions is revealed in such polymers, which is realized owing to the association of metal ions in an indirect manner, through ester oxygen bridges.

electronic orbitals of parallel molecules (Shirai et al., 1977, 1979).

