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Synfacts 2006(5): 0529-0529  
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-934378
Supramolecular Chemistry
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Alignment of Conjugated Polymers by Threading through Porphyrin Tweezers

Contributor(s): Timothy M. Swager, Jean Bouffard
Y. Kubo, Y. Kitada, R. Wakabayashi, T. Kishida, M. Ayabe, K. Kaneko, M. Takeuchi*, S. Shinkai*
Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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21 April 2006 (online)

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Significance

The complexation between diamines and zinc porphyrin tweezer ‘aligner’ molecules is exploited to generate aligned networks of conjugated polymers complexes. The resulting assemblies also reduce the deleterous polymer self-aggregation in the solid state.