Polyurethanes were synthesized from polyester and butanediol with three different diisocyanates, i.e. 4,4'-diphenylmethane diisocyanate(MDI), m-xylene diisocyanate(XDI), and 2,4-toluene diisocyanate(TDI). The effect of chemical structures of diisocyanate compounds on the degree of crystallinity and the thermal stability were observed. Differential scanning calorimetry(DSC) and small angle X-ray scattering(SAXS) were used to determine the degree of crystallinity of hard segment. The thermal degradation of polyurethanes was studied by thermogravimetric methodIt has been shown that the polyurethane hard-segment crystallinity decreases in the following order MDI. XDI.TDI. The experimental results also indicated that polyurethanes with aralkyl diisocyanates, i.e. XDI, had best thermal stability. The polyurethanes synthesized from aromatic diisocyanates,i.e. MDI and TDI had worse thermal stability than from XDI. However, owing to the higher degree of hard-segment crystallinity for polyurethanes based on TDI.