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Photogeneration of N-Heterocyclic Carbenes: Application in Photoinduced Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization
Published on: November 29, 2018
Synthesis and characterization of borane-terminated poly(silole-co-germole) for the evaluation of luminescent PLED
Myoung-Hee Kim1, Jun Lee, Jong-Hyun Kim
1Alan G. MacDiarmid Energy, Research Institute (AMERI) and Nanotechnology Research Center (NTRC), and Department of Chemistry, Chonnam National University, Gwangju 500-757, Korea.
Abstract:
Codehydrocoupling (in the presence of various inorganic B, Al-hydrides) followed by borane-capping (with Ph2BCl) of 1,1-dihydrotetraphenylsilole (1) and 1,1-dihydrotetraphenylgermole (2) (9:1 mole ratio) gave electroluminescent poly(silole-co-germole)s containing borane-ends (3) in high yield. The polymerization yield and molecular weight with Selectrides increase in the order L-Selectride < N-Selectride < K-Selectride. The molecular weights with B, Al-inorganic hydrides increase in the order L-Selectride < Red-Al
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