Dipole Characteristics of Polymers with Main-Chain Polar Rings: Impact of Dipole Strength and Orientation on Reactivity and Material Properties

The authors would like to thank Dr. Thomas Smith for his help with the microstructure analysis of the polymers as well as Dr. Daniel Krajovic and Dr. Matthew Larson for helpful discussions. Preliminary computations were conducted at the University of South Dakota, funded by NSF Award OAC-1626516. The remaining computations were performed on the Palmetto cluster at Clemson University, which is supported by the NSF under Grant Nos. MRI 1228312, II NEW 1405767, MRI 1725573, and MRI 2018069. NMR analyses were done in the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Laboratory and the Minnesota NMR Center, which are supported by the Research and Innovation Office (RIO), the Medical School, the College of Biological Science, the College of Science and Engineering (CSE), and the Department of Chemistry at UMN, and the Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health (NIH, S10OD011952), the NSF, and the Minnesota Medical Foundation. Part of this work was carried out in the CSE Polymer Processing and Characterization Facility at UMN, which has received capital equipment funding from the NSF through the UMN Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC; DMR-2011401). Mass spectrometry analysis was performed at the UMN Department of Chemistry Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, supported by RIO, CSE, and the Department of Chemistry at UMN, as well as the NSF (CHE-1336940). The content of this paper is the sole responsibility of the authors and does not represent the official views of or endorsement by the NIH or NSF.