Diversifying Cross‐Coupling Strategies, Catalysts and Monomers for the Controlled Synthesis of Conjugated Polymers

MA Baker, CH Tsai, KJT Noonan - Chemistry–A European …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Chain‐growth polymerization of aromatic building blocks (termed catalyst‐transfer
polycondensation or CTP) has emerged as a powerful method for the controlled synthesis of …

Advances in the controlled polymerization of conjugated polymers

L Verheyen, P Leysen, MP Van Den Eede, W Ceunen… - Polymer, 2017 - Elsevier
This article features recent advances in the synthesis of conjugated polymers via a
controlled polymerization. These polymerizations typically rely on transition metal catalyzed …

Conjugated polymer synthesis via catalyst-transfer polycondensation (CTP): mechanism, scope, and applications

ZJ Bryan, AJ McNeil - Macromolecules, 2013 - ACS Publications
The recent discovery of a living, controlled chain-growth method for synthesizing π-
conjugated polymers has ignited the field and led to the development of many new …

The history of palladium-catalyzed cross-couplings should inspire the future of catalyst-transfer polymerization

AK Leone, EA Mueller, AJ McNeil - Journal of the American …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Conjugated polymers are the workhorse materials in organic electronics, a field that is
rapidly growing to encompass energy storage devices such as supercapacitors and …

Impact of copolymer sequence on solid-state properties for random, gradient and block copolymers containing thiophene and selenophene

EF Palermo, AJ McNeil - Macromolecules, 2012 - ACS Publications
Nickel-catalyzed chain-growth copolymerizations of thiophene and selenophene derivatives
afforded well-defined π-conjugated copolymers with narrow molecular weight distributions …

Matchmaking in catalyst-transfer polycondensation: optimizing catalysts based on mechanistic insight

AK Leone, AJ McNeil - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2016 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Catalyst-transfer polycondensation (CTP) has emerged as a useful living, chain-
growth polymerization method for synthesizing conjugated (hetero) arene-based polymers …

Designing and refining Ni (II) diimine catalysts toward the controlled synthesis of electron-deficient conjugated polymers

CR Bridges, TM McCormick, GL Gibson… - Journal of the …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Electron-deficient π-conjugated polymers are important for organic electronics, yet the ability
to polymerize electron-deficient monomers in a controlled manner is challenging. Here we …

Conjugated-polymer grafting on inorganic and organic substrates: A new trend in organic electronic materials

A Bousquet, H Awada, RC Hiorns… - Progress in Polymer …, 2014 - Elsevier
This review highlights recent developments in the grafting of conjugated polymers onto
various substrates for organic electronic devices. The rapid development of multi-layer …

Murahashi coupling polymerization: nickel (II)–N-heterocyclic carbene complex-catalyzed polycondensation of organolithium species of (hetero) arenes

K Fuji, S Tamba, K Shono, A Sugie… - Journal of the American …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Revisiting Murahashi coupling, we found that it effectively allows polymerization of lithiated
(hetero) arenes by nickel (II)-catalyzed polycondensation. Deprotonative polymerization of 2 …

[HTML][HTML] [IPr#–PEPPSI]: A Well-Defined, Highly Hindered and Broadly Applicable Pd(II)–NHC (NHC = N-Heterocyclic Carbene) Precatalyst for Cross-Coupling …

MM Rahman, Q Zhao, G Meng, R Lalancette… - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
In this Special Issue,“Featured Papers in Organometallic Chemistry”, we report on the
synthesis and characterization of [IPr#–PEPPSI], a new, well-defined, highly hindered Pd (II) …