Synfacts 2010(2): 0166-0166  
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1219079
Synthesis of Materials and Unnatural Products
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Friedel-Crafts Polycondensation

Contributor(s): Timothy M. Swager, Jose M. Lobez
M. C. G. Hernández, M. G. Zolotukhin, J. L. Maldonado, N. Rehman, K. Meerholz, S. King, A. P. Monkman, N. Fröhlich, C. J. Kudla, U. Scherf*
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico and Centro de Investigaciones en Óptica A. C., León Guanajuato, Mexico; Universität zu Köln and Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany; Durham University, UK
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Publication History

Publication Date:
21 January 2010 (online)

Significance

A polymer with conjugated blocks can be accessed via a metal-free superacid-mediated Friedel-Crafts polycondensation of monomer 1 and N-methylisatin. The polymer P1 can be used as a matrix for phosphors in organic light-emitting diodes.