CHEMICAL AND ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSES OF POLYANILINE PREPARED WITH FECL3

Authors
YASUDA A SHIMIDZU T
Citation
A. Yasuda et T. Shimidzu, CHEMICAL AND ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSES OF POLYANILINE PREPARED WITH FECL3, Synthetic metals, 61(3), 1993, pp. 239-245
Citations number
36
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Condensed Matter","Metallurgy & Mining
Journal title
Synthetic metals → ACNP
ISSN journal
03796779
Volume
61
Issue
3
Year of publication
1993
Pages
239 - 245
Database
ISI
SICI code
0379-6779(1993)61:3<239:CAEAOP>2.0.ZU;2-R
Abstract
Aniline is polymerized by chemical oxidation with FeCl3 in water. At a n optimum reaction condition, the resulting polyaniline has a number a verage molecular weight of 20 400 and a yield of 51%. Chemical and ele ctrochemical analyses show that the polyaniline is emeraldine. FeCl3 i s found to be one of the appropriate oxidants to prepare emeraldine, t hough its standard electrode potential (0.771 V) is lower than that of (NH4)2S2O8 (1.94 V) which has been conventionally used to prepare eme raldine.