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An Air‐Stable Semiconducting Polymer Containing Dithieno[3,2‐ b :2′,3′‐ d ]arsole
Author(s) -
Green Joshua P.,
Han Yang,
Kilmurray Rebecca,
McLachlan Martyn A.,
Anthopoulos Thomas D.,
Heeney Martin
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201602491
Subject(s) - phosphole , stille reaction , polymer , copolymer , conjugated system , palladium , derivative (finance) , polymerization , polymer chemistry , materials science , chemistry , catalysis , organic chemistry , financial economics , economics
Arsole‐containing conjugated polymers are a practically unexplored class of materials despite the high interest in their phosphole analogues. Herein we report the synthesis of the first dithieno[3,2‐ b ;2′,3′‐ d ]arsole derivative, and demonstrate that it is stable to ambient oxidation in its +3 oxidation state. A soluble copolymer is obtained by a palladium‐catalyzed Stille polymerization and demonstrated to be a p‐type semiconductor with promising hole mobility, which was evaluated by field‐effect transistor measurements.
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