4-Vinylphenol → 4-Ethynylphenol

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The same crude p-vinylphenol as used in Example 1 was subjected to azeotropic distillation with toluene without being subjected to vacuum flash distillation, to reduce the water content to 0.038%. A polymerization reaction was conducted in the same manner as in Example 1 except that 28.8 g of acetonitrile was added to 32.3 g of the above-obtained fraction. The reaction mixture was purified by the same reprecipitation as in Example 1, and the resulting precipitate was dried to obtain 6.5 g of a yellowish brown poly(p-vinylphenol). The polymer had a weight-average molecular weight (Mw) of 20,400, a number-average molecular weight (Mn) of 11,500, a light transmittance at a wavelength of 248 nm, of 68.0%, a light transmittance at a wavelength of 450 nm, of 83.2%, and a glass transition temperature of 177° C.

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