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Ditzler RAJ, King AJ, Towell SE, Ratushnyy M, Zhukhovitskiy AV. Editing of polymer backbones. Nat Rev Chem 2023; 7:600-615. [PMID: 37542179 DOI: 10.1038/s41570-023-00514-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/12/2023] [Indexed: 08/06/2023]
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Polymers are at the epicentre of modern technological progress and the associated environmental pollution. Considerations of both polymer functionality and lifecycle are crucial in these contexts, and the polymer backbone - the core of a polymer - is at the root of these considerations. Just as the meaning of a sentence can be altered by editing its words, the function and sustainability of a polymer can also be transformed via the chemical modification of its backbone. Yet, polymer modification has primarily been focused on the polymer periphery. In this Review, we focus on the transformations of the polymer backbone by defining some concepts fundamental to this topic (for example, 'polymer backbone' and 'backbone editing') and by collecting and categorizing examples of backbone editing scattered throughout a century's worth of chemical literature, and outline critical directions for further research. In so doing, we lay the foundation for the field of polymer backbone editing and hope to accelerate its development.
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- Rachael A J Ditzler
- Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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Matsumura Y, Tanudjaja A, Fukushima M, Higuchi M, Ogino S, Ishidoshiro M, Irie Y, Imoto H, Naka K, Hifumi R, Inagi S, Tomita I. Parallel synthesis of donor-acceptor π-conjugated polymers by post-element transformation of organotitanium polymer. Des Monomers Polym 2023; 26:190-197. [PMID: 37426066 PMCID: PMC10327520 DOI: 10.1080/15685551.2023.2233228] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2023] [Accepted: 07/01/2023] [Indexed: 07/11/2023] Open
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The donor-acceptor type π-conjugated polymers having heterole units were prepared by the reaction of a regioregular organometallic polymer having both reactive titanacyclopentadiene and electron-donor thiophene-2,5-diyl units in the main chain with electrophiles such as diphenyltin dichloride, dichlorophenylphosphine, and diiodophenylarsine. For example, a polymer having electron-accepting phosphole unit was obtained in 54% yield whose number-average molecular weight (Mn) and molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) were estimated as 3,000 and 1.9, respectively. The obtained polymer exhibits a high highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) and low lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) energy levels (-5.13 eV and -3.25 eV, respectively) due to the electron-donating thiophene and electron-accepting phosphole units. Reflecting upon the alternating structure of thiophene and phosphole, the polymer exhibits a band gap energy level (Eg) of 1.78 eV which is narrower than that of a derivative of poly(thiophene) (Eg = 2.25 eV).
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- Yoshimasa Matsumura
- Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Materials and Chemical Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, JAPAN
- Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Osaka Institute of Technology, Osaka, JAPAN
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- Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Materials and Chemical Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, JAPAN
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- Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Materials and Chemical Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, JAPAN
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- Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Materials and Chemical Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, JAPAN
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- Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Materials and Chemical Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, JAPAN
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- Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto, JAPAN
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- Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto, JAPAN
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- Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto, JAPAN
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- Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto, JAPAN
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- Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Materials and Chemical Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, JAPAN
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- Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Materials and Chemical Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, JAPAN
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- Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Materials and Chemical Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, JAPAN
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Tanudjaja A, Higuchi M, Imai T, Matsumura Y, Hifumi R, Inagi S, Tomita I. Synthesis and optoelectronic properties of air-stable π-conjugated polymers containing both thiophene-2,5-diyl and fused titanacycle units. Polym Chem 2022. [DOI: 10.1039/d2py00452f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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π-Conjugated poly(arylene ethynylene)s containing both thiophene-2,5-diyl and fused metallacycles units in their alternating sequence were synthesized and their optoelectronic features were studied by the UV-vis spectra.
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- Alvin Tanudjaja
- Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Materials and Chemical Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
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- Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Materials and Chemical Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
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- Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Materials and Chemical Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
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- Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Materials and Chemical Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
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- Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Materials and Chemical Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
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- Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Materials and Chemical Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
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- Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Materials and Chemical Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
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Hoffmann J, Ramirez Y Medina IM, Hissler M, Staubitz A. The influence of the formal replacement of thiophenes by stannoles in terthiophene and sexithiophene on the optoelectronic properties and electrochemical behavior. Dalton Trans 2021; 50:6213-6221. [PMID: 33871519 DOI: 10.1039/d1dt00565k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Polystannoles with thienyl co-monomers are in many ways similar to polythiophenes, but they display much reduced band gaps. However, their polymerization processes are not well researched. Thiophene can be oxidatively electropolymerized, but as stannoles are organometallic, the fundamental question arises whether their inclusion in a conjugated backbone can protect them sufficiently to be able to perform an oxidative electropolymerization. As well-defined oligothiophenes can be used as models to understand the optical and electronic properties of polythiophenes, we transposed this concept on stannole containing polymers; therefore we synthesized a monomeric 1 and dimeric thiophene-flanked stannole 2 and investigated their optoelectronic properties comparatively including polystannoles and the corresponding oligothiophenes in our analysis. With respect to monomer 1, a significantly redshifted absorption (λmax = 510 nm, Δ = 93 nm) and a small optical band gap (Eg,opt(2) = 2.13 eV), close to the bandgap of polymeric stannoles, was observed. In comparison to oligothiophenes, these thienyl-flanked stannoles exhibited a redshift in absorption and emission as well as a lower oxidation potential. Despite these differences, they showed an oligothiophene-like electrochemical behavior. Stannole 1 and the dimer 2 were subjected to an electropolymerization process. This process was investigated in detail by spectroelectrochemical methods which showed that radical cation species were formed in situ but readily decomposed. Nevertheless, under the milder multiscan cyclovoltammetric conditions, electropolymerization occurred as shown by cyclovoltammetry.
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- Jonas Hoffmann
- University of Bremen, Institute for Organic and Analytical Chemistry, Leobener Straße 7, D-28359 Bremen, Germany. and University of Bremen, MAPEX Center for Materials and Processes, Bibliothekstraße 1, D-28359 Bremen, Germany and CNRS, ISCR-UMR 6226, Univ Rennes, 3500 Rennes, France.
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- University of Bremen, Institute for Organic and Analytical Chemistry, Leobener Straße 7, D-28359 Bremen, Germany. and University of Bremen, MAPEX Center for Materials and Processes, Bibliothekstraße 1, D-28359 Bremen, Germany
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- University of Bremen, Institute for Organic and Analytical Chemistry, Leobener Straße 7, D-28359 Bremen, Germany. and University of Bremen, MAPEX Center for Materials and Processes, Bibliothekstraße 1, D-28359 Bremen, Germany
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Ramirez Y Medina IM, Rohdenburg M, Rusch P, Duvinage D, Bigall NC, Staubitz A. π-Conjugated stannole copolymers synthesised by a tin-selective Stille cross-coupling reaction. MATERIALS ADVANCES 2021; 2:3282-3293. [PMID: 34124683 PMCID: PMC8142672 DOI: 10.1039/d1ma00104c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2021] [Accepted: 03/25/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The synthesis of four well-defined conjugated polymers TStTT1-4 containing unusual heterocycle units in the main chain, namely stannole units as building blocks, is reported. The stannole-thiophenyl copolymers were generated by tin-selective Stille coupling reactions in nearly quantitative yields of 94% to 98%. NMR data show that the tin atoms in the rings remain unaffected. Weight-average molecular weights (M w) were high (4900-10 900 Da and 9600-21 900 Da); and molecular weight distributions (M w/M n) were between 1.9 and 2.3. The new materials are strongly absorbing and appear blue-black to purple-black. All iodothiophenyl-stannole monomers St1-4 and the resulting bisthiophenyl-stannole copolymers TStTT1-4 were investigated with respect to their optoelectronic properties. The absorption maxima of the polymers are strongly bathochromically shifted compared to their monomers by about 76 nm to 126 nm in chloroform. Density functional theory calculations support our experimental results of the single stannoles St1-4 showing small HOMO-LUMO energy gaps of 3.17-3.24 eV. The optical band gaps of the polymers are much more decreased and were determined to be only 1.61-1.79 eV. Furthermore, both the molecular structures of stannoles St2 and St3 from single crystal X-ray analyses and the results of the geometry optimisation by DFT confirm the high planarity of the molecules backbone leading to efficient conjugation within the molecule.
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- Isabel-Maria Ramirez Y Medina
- Institute for Organic and Analytical Chemistry, University of Bremen Leobener Str. 7 28359 Bremen Germany
- MAPEX Center for Materials and Processes, University of Bremen Bibliothekstr. 1 28359 Bremen Germany
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- University of Bremen, Institute for Applied and Physical Chemistry Leobener Str. 5 28359 Bremen Germany
- University of Leipzig, Wilhelm-Ostwald-Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Linnéstr. 2 04103 Leipzig Germany
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Leibniz Universität Hannover Callinstr. 3A 30167 Hannover Germany
- Cluster of Excellence PhoenixD (Photonics, Optics, and Engineering - Innovation Across Disciplines) Hannover Germany
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- MAPEX Center for Materials and Processes, University of Bremen Bibliothekstr. 1 28359 Bremen Germany
- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry and Crystallography, University of Bremen Leobener Str. 7 28359 Bremen Germany
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Leibniz Universität Hannover Callinstr. 3A 30167 Hannover Germany
- Cluster of Excellence PhoenixD (Photonics, Optics, and Engineering - Innovation Across Disciplines) Hannover Germany
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- Institute for Organic and Analytical Chemistry, University of Bremen Leobener Str. 7 28359 Bremen Germany
- MAPEX Center for Materials and Processes, University of Bremen Bibliothekstr. 1 28359 Bremen Germany
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Tanudjaja A, Inagi S, Kitamura F, Takata T, Tomita I. An air-stable organometallic polymer containing titanafluorene moieties obtained by the Sonogashira-Hagihara cross-coupling polycondensation. Dalton Trans 2021; 50:3037-3043. [PMID: 33570054 DOI: 10.1039/d0dt03663c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The synthesis of a polymer containing alternating titanafluorene and arylene ethynylene moieties is described. The polymerization of a 2,7-dibromo-9-titanafluorene derivative with 1,4-dioctyloxy-2,5-diethynylbenzene is carried out at 70 °C for 48 h in tetrahydrofuran (THF) in the presence of palladium dichloride/4,5-bis(diphenylphosphino)-9,9-dimethylxanthene as a catalyst and diisopropylamine as a base to produce a dark red polymer. The polymer thus obtained is soluble in organic solvents and stable towards both air and moisture. In the UV-vis absorption spectrum of the polymer, the absorption maxima (λmax) are observed at 321 nm and 395 nm, which are bathochromically shifted compared to those of a model compound of the repeating unit, a 2,7-bis(phenylethynyl)titanafluorene derivative (λmax = 309 nm and 364 nm). The optical band gap (Eg) of the polymer is estimated to be 2.8 eV on the basis of the absorption onset, which is narrower than that of the model compound (3.1 eV).
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- Alvin Tanudjaja
- Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, School of Materials and Chemical Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Nagatsuta-cho 4259-G1-9, Midori-ku, Yokohama, 226-8502, Japan.
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Ramirez y Medina IM, Rohdenburg M, Kipke W, Lork E, Staubitz A. Experimental and Theoretical Studies of a Spirostannole and Formation of a Pentaorganostannate. Molecules 2020; 25:molecules25214993. [PMID: 33126599 PMCID: PMC7672547 DOI: 10.3390/molecules25214993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2020] [Revised: 10/24/2020] [Accepted: 10/25/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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A new spirostannole, 1,1',3,3'-tetrakis(5-methylthiophen-2-yl)-4,4',5,5',6,6',7,7'-octahydro-2,2'-spirobi[benzo[c]stannole] (4), is synthesised and the molecular structure is compared with the optimised geometry from DFT calculations. The highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) and lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) are twice degenerated and show a small HOMO-LUMO energy gap of 3.2 eV. In addition, cyclic voltammetry measurements are conducted and three redox processes are observed. Absorption and emission spectra show maxima at λabs,max 436 nm and λem,max 533 nm, respectively. Spirostannole 4 is a strongly absorbing material, but an extremely weak emitter in solution at 295.15 K. However, when the solution is cooled from 280 to 80 K, the emission becomes visible. The reaction of spirostannole 4 with methyllithium is monitored by NMR spectroscopy at 238.15 K. The 119Sn{1H} NMR signal shifts from -36.0 (4) to -211.0 ppm, which is indicative of the formation of the lithium pentaorganostannate 5. The complex is thermally instable at 295.15 K, but insights into the molecular structure and electronic behaviour are obtained by DFT and TD-DFT calculations.
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- Isabel-Maria Ramirez y Medina
- MAPEX Center for Materials and Processes, University of Bremen, Bibliothek Str. 1, 28359 Bremen, Germany; (I.-M.R.y.M.); (M.R.); (W.K.); (E.L.)
- Institute for Organic and Analytical Chemistry, University of Bremen, Leobener Str. 7, 28359 Bremen, Germany
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- MAPEX Center for Materials and Processes, University of Bremen, Bibliothek Str. 1, 28359 Bremen, Germany; (I.-M.R.y.M.); (M.R.); (W.K.); (E.L.)
- Institute for Applied and Physical Chemistry, University of Bremen, Leobener Str. 5, 28359 Bremen, Germany
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- MAPEX Center for Materials and Processes, University of Bremen, Bibliothek Str. 1, 28359 Bremen, Germany; (I.-M.R.y.M.); (M.R.); (W.K.); (E.L.)
- Institute for Organic and Analytical Chemistry, University of Bremen, Leobener Str. 7, 28359 Bremen, Germany
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- MAPEX Center for Materials and Processes, University of Bremen, Bibliothek Str. 1, 28359 Bremen, Germany; (I.-M.R.y.M.); (M.R.); (W.K.); (E.L.)
- Institute for Inorganic Chemistry and Crystallography, University of Bremen, Leobener Str. 7, 28359 Bremen, Germany
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- MAPEX Center for Materials and Processes, University of Bremen, Bibliothek Str. 1, 28359 Bremen, Germany; (I.-M.R.y.M.); (M.R.); (W.K.); (E.L.)
- Institute for Organic and Analytical Chemistry, University of Bremen, Leobener Str. 7, 28359 Bremen, Germany
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