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New Polydiacetylenes with Visible Chromophoric Side Groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

James L. Foley
Affiliation:
Center for Advanced Materials, Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA.
Venkataramani Shivshankar
Affiliation:
Center for Advanced Materials, Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA.
Daniel J. Sandman
Affiliation:
Center for Advanced Materials, Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA.
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Abstract

In the interest of obtaining crystalline polydiacetylene with absorption at longer wavelengths, new derivatives of 2,4-hexadiyne with planar, visible absorbing aromatic chromophores have been designed, synthesized, and thermally polymerized. The resulting polymers have a red shifted maximum with absorption extending to the infrared. Their Raman spectra show the usual polydiacetylene ene-yne structure, and X-ray powder diffraction reveals that the new polymers are crystalline.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1998

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