Macromolecules

Linear ladder-type π-conjugated polymers composed of fused thiophene ring systems

K Oyaizu, T Iwasaki, Y Tsukahara, E Tsuchida

Index: Oyaizu, Kenichi; Iwasaki, Tomokazu; Tsukahara, Yoshiaki; Tsuchida, Eishun Macromolecules, 2004 , vol. 37, # 4 p. 1257 - 1270

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Abstract

A novel carbon-sulfur (C2S) analogue of polyacene has been synthesized and characterized. The polymer is composed of a nondegenerate trans-cisoid polyacetylene backbone in which all hydrogen atoms are replaced with sulfur atoms to form thiophene rings that are fused into a linear cross-conjugated ladder-type structure. The newly developed synthetic route of the ladder-type polymer is based on an intramolecular ...