The effect of two-dimensional ordering on photoreactions of long-chain unsaturated carboxylic acids

…, S Tripathi, DM Taylor, CJM Stirling

Index: Guo, Bo Zhang; Tripathi, Sadhana; Taylor, D. Martin; Stirling, Charles J. M. Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, 1991 , # 7 p. 479 - 481

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Abstract

Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) films provide ordered films of organic substrates and Ringsdorfl has shown that when these substrates possess in-chain alkenyl groups, polymerisation occurs upon UV irradiation. Such behaviour is not, of course, characteristic of such substrates in liquid solution, in melts or crystals. We now report on the behaviour of terminally unsaturated carboxylic acids 2 when exposed to UV irradia- tion in LB films and contrast the behaviour of the ...