Syntheses of aniline and azo dye methacrylate copolymers for nonlinear optics.
01 January 1988
Two anilinoalkyl methacrylates were copolymerized with methyl methacrylate in various ratios. The copolymers were converted to polymeric azo dyes, potential second-order nonlinear optical materials, via a novel azo coupling process that represents an improvement over the alternative polymerization of azo dye methacrylates. Spectroscopic and thermal properties of the copolymers were determined as well.