Chujo Y. (ed.) Conjugated Polymer Synthesis. Methods and Reactions

Weinheim: Wiley, 2010. — 319 p.This book ‘‘Conjugated Polymer Synthesis – Methods and Reactions’’ aims to summarize the major developments in the topics of synthesis of new conjugated polymers, novel methodologies for the preparation of conjugated polymers, and inorganic-elements containing mainchain-type conjugated polymers. These new compounds and materials are all set to be very important in the fields of electrical, optical, and magnetic applications.
Much effort has been devoted to the design and synthesis of a wide variety of conjugated polymers such as polyacetylene, polythiophene, polypyrrole, poly(p-phenylene), poly(p-phenylenevinylene), poly(p-phenylene-ethynylene), polyfluorene and their derivatives. This is not only due to an academic interest in their particular characteristic properties, but also owing to various industrial utilizations. Potential applications here include organic light-emitting diodes, flat panel displays, sensory materials, semiconductors, field-effect transistors, photovoltaic cells, and so on. To achieve high performance in these applications, it is now necessary to explore new, more conjugated polymers. These new conjugated systems might be expected to show high emission efficiency, fine-tunability of their band-gaps, processability, dramatic improvements in durability, thermal-, air- and photo-stabilities, and other important characteristic properties.
In each of the chapters, all of them written by internationally acclaimed experts, the book covers the whole spectrum of the synthesis of new conjugated polymers from fundamentals to material science applications. I hope that the readers will enjoy this new chemistry and methodology developed throughout the book.Contents
Organometallic Polycondensation for Conjugated Polymers
Catalyst-Transfer Condensation Polymerization for Precision Synthesis of p-Conjugated Polymers
Regioregular and Regiosymmetric Polythiophenes
Functional Hyperbranched Polymers Constructed from Acetylenic An-Type Building Blocks
Through-Space Conjugated Polymers
Fully Conjugated Nano-Sized Macrocycles: Syntheses and Versatile Properties
Organoboron Conjugated Polymers
Recent Developments in p-Conjugated Macromolecules with Phosphorus Atoms in the Main Chain
Organo-Arsenic, Phosphorus, and Antimony Conjugated Polymers
Synthetic Strategies to Conjugated Main-Chain Metallopolymers
Helical Polyacetylene Prepared in a Liquid Crystal Field