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Porphyrin-acetylene-thiophene polymer wires
Guangtao Li1, Tianyu Wang, Andrea Schulz
1Freie Universität Berlin, Institut fur Organische Chemie, Takustr. 3, D-14195 Berlin, Germany.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|February 20, 2004
Abstract:
5,15-Bis[acetylene-4-(ethylenedioxy)thiophene]-10,20-bis(4-carboxyphenyl)porphyrin was synthesized by a Sonogashira coupling and polymerized to fibres; TEM and AFM images show uniform porphyrin wires with a length of several micrometers and a thickness of less than 4 nm.