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Facile green synthesis of isoindigo-based conjugated polymers using aldol polycondensation
- Source :
- Polymer Chemistry. 8:3448-3456
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), 2017.
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Abstract
- The aldol reaction is a facile green synthetic method and has been widely used in the synthesis of small molecules. In this study, we attempted to prepare conjugated polymers using aldol polymerization for the first time. Two isoindigo-based conjugated polymers (PIID-DT and PBIBDF-DT) were synthesized successfully in excellent yields and with high molecular weights (MGPCn up to 53.9 kDa) using toluene as the solvent and an acid as the catalyst. The entire synthesis route is economical and environmentally friendly, and the traditional drawbacks such as the use of organometallic reagents, toxic tin monomers, and other environmentally harmful compounds often encountered in Stille and Suzuki cross-coupling reactions could be avoided. Moreover, the isoindigo-based polymers prepared by the newly established aldol polymerization were also evaluated as organic field-effect transistors with bottom-gate/top-contact devices and exhibited excellent mobilities as high as 0.16 and 0.26 cm2 V−1 s−1 with a high Ion/Ioff ratio of 105 for PIID-DT and PBIBDF-DT, respectively. Therefore, aldol polycondensation has environmentally friendly characteristics that can be applied in the green synthesis of isoindigo-based conjugated polymers.
- Subjects :
- chemistry.chemical_classification
Condensation polymer
Polymers and Plastics
Chemistry
Organic Chemistry
Bioengineering
02 engineering and technology
Polymer
Conjugated system
010402 general chemistry
021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology
Condensation reaction
01 natural sciences
Biochemistry
0104 chemical sciences
Stille reaction
chemistry.chemical_compound
Monomer
Aldol reaction
Polymerization
Organic chemistry
0210 nano-technology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 17599962 and 17599954
- Volume :
- 8
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Polymer Chemistry
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........f5a1ce3476da0b075b555996ced03914