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Synthesis of novel poly(dithienylpyridines)

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posted on 2024-06-03, 17:31 authored by GM Chapman, SP Stanforth, R Berridge, Cristina Pozo-GonzaloCristina Pozo-Gonzalo, PJ Skabara
This paper describes the chemical and electrochemical synthesis of novel copolymers of thiophene and pyridine. Di-iodination of 3-hydroxypyridine 12 followed by O-substitution gave a series of ethers 14b-d and esters/carbamates 15a-d which were reacted with the stannylated bithiophene derivative 17 in a Stille cross-coupling reaction yielding poly (1b-d) and poly (2a-d) respectively. These chemical polymerisation reactions generally resulted in highly insoluble materials which were difficult to characterise. Ethers 14b-d and esters/carbamates 15a-d gave O-substituted 3-hydroxy-2,6-di(2-thienyl)pyridines 1b-d and 2a-d respectively in Stille cross-coupling reactions with the stannylated thiophene 16. Ethers 1b-d underwent electrochemical polymerisation allowing the synthesis of O-alkylated polymers, poly (1b-d), with electrochemical band-gaps of 1.4 to 1.6 eV. In contrast, the esters/carbamates 2a-d could not be electropolymerised.

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Journal

Journal of Materials Chemistry

Volume

12

Pagination

2292-2298

Location

London, Eng.

ISSN

0959-9428

Language

eng

Publication classification

CN.1 Other journal article

Copyright notice

2002, The Royal Society of Chemistry

Issue

8

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry

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