Polymer containing chalcone moiety showed a cis-trans isomerism. Two novel acrylate monomers, 4-[3-(2,4-dichloro-phenyl)3-oxoprop-1-en-1-yl]phenylacrylate (DCP) and 4-(3-(4-((4-(4-(3-(2,4-dichlorophenyl)-3-oxoprop-1-en-1-yl)phenoxy)-6-((4-nitrophenyl)amino)-1,3,5-triazin-2-yl)oxy)phenyl)-3-oxoprop-1-en-1-yl)phenyl acrylate (TCP) were synthesized and copolymer with acrylic acid. All the monomers and polymer were characterized by IR, NMR and UV techniques. The M w of the DCP based polymer and TCP based polymer were 4000 and 10,000 g/ mol respectively. DCP and TCP based polymer showed double stage and single stage decomposition respectively. The reactivity ratio of the polymers showed that the poly(DCP-co-AA) formed random polymerization whereas poly(TCP-co-AA) formed alternate copolymerization. The poly(TCP-co-AA) showed excellent photoisomerism whereas poly(DCP-co-AA) showed photocycloaddition reaction.