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A self-contained photoacid generator for super acid based on photochromic terarylene
Ruiji Li1, Takuya Nakashima, Tsuyoshi Kawai
1Graduate School of Materials Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, Nara 630-0192, Japan. ntaku@ms.naist.jp tkawai@ms.naist.jp.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|April 4, 2017
Abstract:
A self-contained photoacid generator for super acid along with the photoinduced 6π-electrocyclization reaction of the terarylene backbone is demonstrated. The photoinitiated cationic polymerization of epoxy-monomers is achieved with an efficient photochemical quantum yield, Φacid = 0.47.