| Abstract: | This work presents a synthesis of monomers from a natural compound (limonene) and dimethylsiloxanes with various chain lengths by hydrosilylation. Based on these monomers, prepolymers with various lengths of the siloxane and methylene parts, as well as their analogues without siloxane moieties, were obtained by thiol‐ene polyaddition with ethanedithiol, butanedithiol and hexanedithiol. Their physicochemical characteristics, namely the thermal stability, phase behaviour and intrinsic viscosity of the polymers obtained, were compared as a function of the length of the methylene spacer and the siloxane part in the polymer chain. © 2019 Society of Chemical Industry |
