Structural aspects and electronic states of polyuret—construction of robust extended systems with nonbonding flat bands
Structural aspects and electronic states of polyuret—construction of robust extended systems with nonbonding flat bands
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DOI:
10.1038/s41428-020-0349-2
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发表时间:
2020-04
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2.8
通讯作者:
Yiming Liu;M. Hatanaka;M. Miyasaka
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作者:
Yiming Liu;M. Hatanaka;M. Miyasaka
The polymer of isocyanic acid has been referred to as cyamelide (cyamelid) by Liebig and Wöhler in some early studies, in which it was considered a mixture of chain polymers of isocyanic acid and cyanuric acid. Despite the knowledge of its fundamental structure, the chain polymeric compound has not been well characterized. We herein polymerized isocyanic acid and purified the resultant polymer to obtain a white powder. This powder was characterized by using IR, Raman, and UV spectroscopies; X-ray diffraction analysis; and band calculations. Analogous to the extended systems of urea, e.g., biuret, triuret, and higher oligomers, we refer to this polymer as polyuret. The structural chemistry of the polyuret was thoroughly explored with regard to possiblecis/trans-isomerism. This polymer has flat bands at the frontier levels due to the nonbonding character of the urea moieties. We suggest that this compound should no longer be referred to as cyamelide or polyisocyanate to avoid confusion with the aforementioned uncharacterized mixture or with isocyanate-pendant polymers.