Electrochemical synthesis of new electroactive polymers from dithienylene-vinylene derivatives
English
Jérôme, Christine[University of Liège (ULg) > Department of Chemistry > Center for Education and Research on Macromolecules (CERM) > >]
Maertens, Christophe[University of Liège (ULg) > Department of Chemistry > Center for Education and Research on Macromolecules (CERM) > >]
Mertens, Marc[University of Liège (ULg) > Department of Chemistry > Center for Education and Research on Macromolecules (CERM) > >]
Jérôme, Robert[University of Liège (ULg) > Department of Chemistry > Center for Education and Research on Macromolecules (CERM) > >]
Quattrocchi, C.[University of Mons-Hainaut (UMH) > > Service de Chimie des Matériaux Nouveaux, Centre de Recherche en Electronique et Photonique Moléculaires > >]
Lazzaroni, Roberto[University of Mons-Hainaut (UMH) > > Service de Chimie des Matériaux Nouveaux, Centre de Recherche en Electronique et Photonique Moléculaires > >]
Brédas, Jean-Luc[University of Mons-Hainaut (UMH) > > Service de Chimie des Matériaux Nouveaux, Centre de Recherche en Electronique et Photonique Moléculaires > >]
International Conference on Science and Technology of Synthetic Metals
28/07/1996 - 02/08/1996
Snowbird
USA
[en] eletropolymerization ; conjugated polymer
[en] Highly conjugated thiophene derivatives, based on thienylene-vinylene and thieneylene-vinylene-phenylene units, have been synthesized in order to examine: (i) the effect of such regular conjugated monomer structures on the polymerization; (ii) the optical and electrochemical properties of the corresponding conjugated polymers. The all-trans monomers have been prepared by a Wittig reaction and the polymers have then been synthesized electrochemically. The polymers are electrochromic and can be reversibly doped both oxidatively and reductively. Their electrochemical behavior and optical properties have been analysed on the basis of quantum-chemical calculations.
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