Issue 81, 2020
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Chemical Communications

Multibranched aliphatic side chains for π-conjugated polymers with a high density of ‘unshielded’ aromatics†

Simeng Wang,a   Jessica Shaw,a   Yang Han,b   Zhuping Fei,c   Florian Glöcklhofer ORCID logo *a  and  Martin Heeney ORCID logo *a  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemistry and Centre for Processable Electronics, Imperial College London, Molecular Sciences Research Hub, 80 Wood Lane, London W12 0BZ, UK
E-mail: f.glocklhofer@imperial.ac.uk, m.heeney@imperial.ac.uk

b School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, P. R. China

c Institute of Molecular Plus, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Molecular Optoelectronic Science, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, P. R. China

Abstract

The synthesis of strongly solubilising multibranched aliphatic side chains for π-conjugated polymers is reported. The solubilising capability of the side chains and their effect on the polymer properties are studied on the example of copolymers composed of up to six unsubstituted, ‘unshielded’ thiophene units per side chain-substituted naphthalene diimide unit.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/D0CC04967K
Article type
Communication
Submitted
20 jul 2020
Accepted
07 sep 2020
First published
07 sep 2020
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Chem. Commun., 2020,56, 12138-12141

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Multibranched aliphatic side chains for π-conjugated polymers with a high density of ‘unshielded’ aromatics

S. Wang, J. Shaw, Y. Han, Z. Fei, F. Glöcklhofer and M. Heeney, Chem. Commun., 2020, 56, 12138 DOI: 10.1039/D0CC04967K

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