Brush Polymer of Donor-Accepter Dyads via Adduct Formation between Lewis Base Polymer Donor and All Carbon Lewis Acid Acceptor
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Results and Discussion
2.1. Synthesis of Macromers P3HT-(CH2)3-MIM and P3HT-(CH2)3-VIM
2.2. Polymerization of Macromer P3HT-(CH2)3-VIM
2.3. Synthesis of Linked Donor Polymer-C60 Adduct Dyads
2.4. Electronic Absorption and Emission Properties
2.5. Thermal Behaviors of Macromer, Brush Polymer, and Their C60 Adducts
3. Experimental Section
3.1. Materials, Reagents, and Methods
3.2. Preparation of P3HT with H/H Chain-Ends, H-P3HT-H
3.3. Synthesis of P3HT-(CH2)3I
3.4. Synthesis of P3HT-(CH2)3-MIM
3.5. Synthesis of P3HT-(CH2)3-VIM
3.6. Polymerization of P3HT-(CH2)3-VIM
3.7. Synthesis of Polymer-C60 Adducts: P3HT-(CH2)3-MIM-C60, P3HT-(CH2)3-VIM-C60 and P[P3HT-(CH2)3-VIM-C60]
4. Conclusions
Acknowledgments
Author Contributions
Conflicts of Interest
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Wang, Y.; Hong, M.; Bailey, T.S.; Chen, E.Y.-X. Brush Polymer of Donor-Accepter Dyads via Adduct Formation between Lewis Base Polymer Donor and All Carbon Lewis Acid Acceptor. Molecules 2017, 22, 1564. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules22091564
Wang Y, Hong M, Bailey TS, Chen EY-X. Brush Polymer of Donor-Accepter Dyads via Adduct Formation between Lewis Base Polymer Donor and All Carbon Lewis Acid Acceptor. Molecules. 2017; 22(9):1564. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules22091564
Chicago/Turabian StyleWang, Yang, Miao Hong, Travis S. Bailey, and Eugene Y.-X. Chen. 2017. "Brush Polymer of Donor-Accepter Dyads via Adduct Formation between Lewis Base Polymer Donor and All Carbon Lewis Acid Acceptor" Molecules 22, no. 9: 1564. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules22091564