,4'-DIBUTYL-ALPHA-TERTHIOPHENE-PHENYLENE-VINYLENE) - A NEW SOLUBLE AND DOPABLE PHENYLENE-VINYLENE-BASED CONJUGATED POLYMER

Authors
WANG CG XIE XS LEGOFF E ALBRITTONTHOMAS J KANNEWURF CR KANATZIDIS MG
Citation
Cg. Wang et al., ,4'-DIBUTYL-ALPHA-TERTHIOPHENE-PHENYLENE-VINYLENE) - A NEW SOLUBLE AND DOPABLE PHENYLENE-VINYLENE-BASED CONJUGATED POLYMER, Synthetic metals, 74(1), 1995, pp. 71-74
Citations number
41
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Condensed Matter","Metallurgy & Metallurigical Engineering
Journal title
Synthetic metals → ACNP
ISSN journal
03796779
Volume
74
Issue
1
Year of publication
1995
Pages
71 - 74
Database
ISI
SICI code
0379-6779(1995)74:1<71:,-ANSA>2.0.ZU;2-6
Abstract
A new soluble and dopable copolymer consisting of 3',4'-dibutyl-2,2':5 ',2 ''-terthiophene and phenylene-vinylene units has been designed and prepared via a Wittig reaction. This title copolymer is soluble in co mmon organic solvents such as THF and CHCl3, and can be doped with iod ine achieving an electrical conductivity of about 3.2 X 10(-2) S/cm at room temperature. Films of this copolymer are electroactive and turn reversibly and rapidly from red to green-blue upon doping and undoping electrochemically.