Toward tuning electrical and optical properties in conjugated polymers using side-chains: highly conductive head-to-tail, heteroatom functionalized polythiophenes

RD McCullough, SP Williams

Index: McCullough, Richard D.; Williams, Shawn P. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1993 , vol. 115, # 24 p. 11608 - 11609

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Abstract

Understanding of the effects of fundamental molecular structure on material characteristics in conducting polymers' requires the construction of materials with very well-defined physical structures. 2 Efforts to prepare regioregular head-to-tail (HT) poly (3-alkylthiophene~)~( PATS) led to the development, in our lab4 and then el~ ewhere,~ of a method for the chemical polymerization of 3-alkylthiophenes that provides essentially 100% HT co~ ...