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- Title
Vectorial On‐Surface Synthesis of Polar 2D Polymer Crystals.
- Authors
Kojima, Takahiro; Patel, Karan; Nobusue, Shunpei; Mahmoud, Ahmed; Xie, Cong; Nakae, Takahiro; Kawai, Shigeki; Fukami, Kazuhiro; Sakaguchi, Hiroshi
- Abstract
The asymmetric introduction of functional groups into polymers is promising due to its potential to provide novel electronic and magnetic properties. Though traditional on‐surface bottom‐up synthesis has succeeded in creating various types of polymers, it struggles at realizing asymmetry due to the difficulty of stereoregular polymerization and the tendency for overall polarity cancellation during agglomeration. Here, enabled by the low halogen‐contaminated metal surfaces provided by two‐zone chemical vapor deposition, "compass" precursors possessing three independent bonding, edge, and dipole vectors undergo isotactic polymerization via the vectorial self‐assembly of chiral precursor diradicals without the need for chiral catalysts required in conventional in‐solution polymerization. The isotactic polymers exhibit polar 2D crystalline structures due to the hetero‐edge CH–π interaction between the standing phenyl and butoxy group surpassing the homo‐edge interactions of π–π and CHCH. The developed vectorial on‐surface synthetic technique not only paves the way to the realization of stereoregular control but also unlocks unprecedented crystal engineering.
- Subjects
CRYSTALLINE polymers; ISOTACTIC polymers; CHEMICAL vapor deposition; CRYSTAL structure; PHENYL group; POLYMERS
- Publication
Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2023, Vol 10, Issue 23, p1
- ISSN
2196-7350
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/admi.202300214