Azomethine-based phenol polymer: Synthesis, characterization and thermal study

▶ In this paper a new polyphenol derivate, PAPIMP, was synthesized by an oxidative polymerization process in alkaline medium. ▶ The conductivity measurements show that polyphenol derivate are semiconductor. The undopped the conductivity values of PAIPMN were about 10−11 S/cm. ▶ The apparent activation energies for thermal decomposition of polyphenol derivate were also obtained by Tang, Flynn-Wall-Ozawa (FWO), Kissenger-Akahira-Sunose (KAS) and Coats-Redfern methods (CR) were 96.97, 105.33, 97.28 and 88.60 kJ mol−1, respectively. ▶ The most likely decomposition process of polyphenol derivate found to be a Dn Deceleration type.