Synthesis and characterization of poly(pyridinium salt)s with organic counterion exhibiting both lyotropic liquid-crystalline and light-emitting properties
Synthesis and characterization of poly(pyridinium salt)s with organic counterion exhibiting both lyotropic liquid-crystalline and light-emitting properties
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DOI:
10.1021/ma010904k
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发表时间:
2001-10-23
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5.5
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Cebe, JJ
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作者:
Bhowmik, PK;Burchett, RA;Cebe, JJ
Recently, nitrogen-containing polymers have received unabated attention in the design and synthesis of electroluminescent polymers. 1-10 They typically consist of π-electron-deficient heterocycles containing imine nitrogen in the aromatic moieties. They usually include poly (2, 5-pyridylene), 11 an analogue of poly (p-phenylene), 12-15 poly (2, 5-pyridylenevinylene), 10 an analogue of poly (p-phenylenevinylene), 12-15 poly (oxadiazole), 16 poly (triazole), 17 poly (triazine), 18 poly (quinoline), 19, 20 poly-(quinoxaline), 21 poly (4-vinylpyridine), 22 poly (aniline), 23 and poly (pyrrole), 23 among others. Unlike other π-conjugated polymers, 12-15 all of these polymers contain nitrogen heteroatoms either in the main chains or in the side chains that provide facile quaternization reaction and protonation of the nitrogen sites. Thus, their emission spectra can be tuned at will by adding a charged species to the nitrogen site via by manipulating their electronic structures. 1-10 Besides their electroluminescent properties, 1-10 conducting24 and liquidcrystalline (LC) 25-27 properties of suitably designed polymer structures make them attractive materials in many technological applications. However, the two other main-chain poly (pyridinium salt) s are of considerable interest. One typically consists of 4, 4′-bipyridinium ions along the backbone of the polymer chains that are known as viologen polymers. They exhibit a number of interesting properties including electrical conductivity, 28 electrochromism, 29 photochromism, 30 thermochromism, 31 and LC properties. 32, 33 The other consists of 4, 4′-(1, 4-phenylene) bis (2, 6-diphenylpyridinium) ions along the backbone of the polymer chains. All-aromatic systems are desirable because of their high thermal and chemical stability. They, like viologen polymers, also exhibit a number of unique properties that include redox behavior, electrochromism, conductivity when doped with 7, 7, 8, 8-tetracyanoquinodimethane, and photochromism. 34 Harris et al. reported the synthesis of this class of polymers containing-BF4, an inorganic counterion, by the ring-transmutation polymerization reaction and the characterization of their physical properties. Although their glass transition temperature, Tg, values cannot be determined by the DSC measurements, they exhibit distinct melting endotherms with a minimum above 380 C. The TGA measurements indicate that they start to decompose at about 360 C prior to their melting transition temperature, Tm, values. Despite the presence of ionic groups in these polymers, they are insoluble in water but soluble to a limited extent in polar aprotic solvents and can be solution cast into tough, flexible films. Additionally, the extent of their solubility in these solvents is insufficient to form lyotropic solutions. 34 Recently, Huang et al. reported the results of another series of poly (pyridinium salt) s with triflate as a counterion. These polymers were significantly more thermally and thermooxidatively stable than analogous poly (pyridinium) salts with-BF4 counterion. They were also soluble in polar organic solvents including dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), dimethylformamide (DMF), and dimethylacetamide (DMAc) from which fingernail creasable films were easily cast. 35 In this communication, we describe the synthesis of a new series of aromatic ionic polymersspoly (pyridinium salt) sscontaining a bulky organic counterion such as tosylate ion and the characterization of their lyotropic properties in polar protic and aprotic organic solvents. The general structure and designations of these ionic polymers, I, which were prepared and characterized in this study, are shown Scheme 1. In contrast to the-BF4 …