Conjugated Organoboron Oligomers and Polymers: Functional Building Blocks for Supramolecular Structures

在这个由化学部门的大分子、超分子和纳米化学项目资助的项目中，纽瓦克罗格斯大学的弗里德·杰克尔将使用共轭有机硅低聚物和聚合物来开发新的棒线圈型两亲体，研究它们的自组装成高阶结构，并探索它们对不同化学和物理刺激的反应。由于其缺电子的性质，有机硼烷提供了一套独特的理想的特征，包括强烈的pi接受电子性质和形成刘易斯酸碱配合物的明显倾向。一个由本科生和研究生组成的多元化群体将接受培训，高中生将通过ACS项目SEED参与其中。通过国际合作和学生交流，他们的学习经验将进一步丰富。作为在研究和本科教育之间建立桥梁的努力的一部分，一项关于共轭聚合物的新实验将在无机和材料化学本科实验室实施。这项工作将在主族元素化学领域以及共轭聚合物和超分子材料领域产生新的基础知识。研究这些类型的共轭聚合物可以产生具有光学、电子和传感应用特性的新型功能材料。

In this project funded by the Macromolecular, Supramolecular and Nanochemistry Program of the Chemistry Division, Frieder Jaekle of Rutgers University at Newark will use conjugated organoborane oligomers and polymers for the development of new rod-coil type amphiphiles, study their self-assembly into higher order structures, and probe their response to different chemical and physical stimuli. As a result of their electron-deficient nature, organoboranes offer a unique set of desirable features including strongly pi-accepting electronic properties and a pronounced tendency to form Lewis acid-base complexes. A diverse group of undergraduate and graduate students will be trained and high school students will be involved through the ACS project SEED. Their learning experience will be further enriched through international collaborations and student exchanges. As part of an effort to build bridges between research and undergraduate education a new experiment on conjugated polymers will be implemented in the Inorganic and Materials Chemistry undergraduate laboratory.This work will generate new fundamental knowledge in the field of main group element chemistry and in the areas of conjugated polymers and supramolecular materials. Studying these types of conjugated polymers could lead to novel functional materials with characteristics beneficial to optical, electronic, and sensing applications.