Metal-Mediated Synthetic Routes to Electroactive Polymers

在这项由化学部特别项目办公室资助的研究项目中，Tilley将探索新的金属介导的电活性和电荷传输聚合物的途径，以开发具有定制性能的聚合物材料。来自机理研究的化学信息将被用于设计和合成下一代脱氢偶联催化剂。将详细研究聚锡烷的电子性质，并将合成新类型的聚锡烷，以寻找新的电子性质和更窄的带隙，以实现sigma共轭。从这里研究的一些超分子材料可以开发出具有电荷传输特性的功能化的纳米多孔网络。%含有氧化还原活性金属中心的聚合物将提供获得新型导电聚合物、磁性聚合物、大分子催化剂或电极介体系统的途径。有望在催化、分子传感和化学分离方面得到应用。

In this research project funded by the Office of Special Projects of the Chemistry Division, Tilley will explore new, metal-mediated routes to electroactive and charge-transporting polymers with an eye to developing polymeric materials with tailor-made properties. Chemical information from mechanistic studies will be used to design and synthesize the next generation of dehydrocoupling catalysts. Electronic properties of polystannanes will be investigated in detail, and new types of polystannanes will be synthesized in a search for new electronic properties and more narrow band-gaps for sigma-conjugation. Functionalized, nano-porous networks with charge-transport properties can be developed from some of the supramolecular materials being studied here. %%% Polymers containing redox-active metal centers will provide access to new conducting polymers, magnetically active polymers, macromolecular catalysts or electrode mediator systems. Applications can be expected in catalysis, molecular sensing, and chemical separations.