Living Polymerization via Anionic Initiation for the Synthesis of Well-Defined PPV Materials

Inge Cosemans; Jimmy Wouters; Thomas Cleij; Laurence Lutsen; Wouter Maes; Thomas Junkers; Dirk Vanderzande

doi:10.1002/marc.201100758

Living Polymerization via Anionic Initiation for the Synthesis of Well-Defined PPV Materials

Inge Cosemans, Jimmy Wouters, Thomas Cleij, Laurence Lutsen, Wouter Maes, Thomas Junkers, Dirk Vanderzande^*

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Abstract

The anionic polymerization of PPV via the sulfinyl precursor route is further investigated. When LHMDS is employed as the base to form the actively propagating quinodimethane system and THF as the solvent, anionic polymerizations can be observed. With the use of tert- butyl-substituted anionic initiators, specific functional groups can be built in the polymer chain and the chain length can be efficiently controlled, which is demonstrated here for the first time. With introduction of branched side chains on the aromatic core, soluble conjugated PPV material can be obtained with molecular weights in the range of 5000-16,000 g mol(-1). WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	242-247
Journal	Macromolecular Rapid Communications
Volume	33
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/marc.201100758
Publication status	Published - 13 Feb 2012
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Anionic initiators
anionic polymerization
living polymerization
poly(p-phenylene vinylene)
sulfinyl precursor route

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