Macromolecules

Synthesis and characterization of alternating copolymers of fluorene and oxadiazole

J Ding, M Day, G Robertson, J Roovers

Index: Ding, Jianfu; Day, Michael; Robertson, Gilles; Roovers, Jacques Macromolecules, 2002 , vol. 35, # 9 p. 3474 - 3483

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Citation Number: 185

Abstract

Alternating copolymers of 9, 9-dioctylfluorene and oxadiazole have been prepared by the tetrazole route or the Suzuki coupling reaction. In the polymers the oxadiazole units were evenly dispersed in the main chain at every one, P (F1-alt-Ox), three, P (F3-alt-Ox), or four, P (F4-alt-Ox), fluorene units. Another copolymer with an asymmetric repeat unit structure, P (F3- Ox-F1-Ox) has also been prepared for comparison. In this study, the tetrazole route has ...