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Sudarshan Natarajan1, Seong H Kim
1Department of Chemical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|February 9, 2006
Abstract:
In contrast to the traditional thermally-activated Ullmann coupling, a photo-activated Ullmann coupling for facile synthesis of oligothiophene and polythiophene films and micropatterns is reported.
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