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- Title
Boron Subphthalocyanine Polymers by Facile Coupling to Poly(acrylic acid-ran-styrene) Copolymers Synthesized by Nitroxide-Mediated Polymerization and the Associated Problems with Autoinitiation.
- Authors
Bender, Timothy P.; Lessard, Benoît H.
- Abstract
Boron subphthalocyanines (BsubPcs) are macrocyclic aromatic small molecules containing a chelated boron atom. BsubPcs have interesting optoelectronic and physical properties, justifying their use in various organic electronic devices such as organic solar cells and organic light-emitting diodes. However, our group has only recently reported the first incorporation of a BsubPc moiety into a polymer using a two-step post-polymerization procedure. This communication outlines the use of acrylic acid as a method for obtaining carboxylic acid functional copolymers for the facile coupling to BsubPc post polymerization. In addition, the observations and the proposed mechanism of a side product unique to the copolymerization of acrylic acid and styrene due to autoinitiation are presented.
- Subjects
BORON compounds; SMALL molecules; MACROCYCLIC compound synthesis; CHELATES; COUPLING reactions (Chemistry); COPOLYMERIZATION
- Publication
Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 2013, Vol 34, Issue 7, p568
- ISSN
1022-1336
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/marc.201200787