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Backbone photochromic polymers containing the dimethyldihydropyrene moiety: toward optoelectronic switches
M J Marsella1, Z Q Wang, R H Mitchell
1Department of Chemistry, University of California at Riverside, Riverside, California 92521, USA. michael.marsella@ucr.edu
Organic Letters
|September 15, 2000
Abstract:
The design and synthesis of the first electrically conducting main chain photochromic conjugated polymer incorporating dimethyldihydropyrene is reported, as is the demonstration of the corresponding repeat unit as an optoelectronic redox switch.