Synthesis of brush-shaped conjugated polymer having flexible and well-defined poly(vinyl ether)s pendants

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26820314
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Structural/Functional materials
• Research Institution: Kyoto Institute of Technology
• Principal Investigator: Motoyanagi Jin 京都工芸繊維大学, 分子化学系, 助教 (10505845)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 精密重合 / リビングカチオン重合 / 特殊構造高分子

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this study, we designed novel pai-conjugated polymers grafted with poly(vinyl ether) (polyVE) pendants obtained by oxidative coupling reaction of a polyVE-based macromonomer bearing a diethynyl benzene group at the terminus. Solutions of the resulted polymers showed intriguing changes in color depending on the kinds of medium, concentration and temperature, indicating the photoluminescence properties of the polymers would be closely related to their aggregate formation behavior. Furthermore, we have also synthesized poly(phenyl acetylene)s grafted with polyVE pendants, where both of the main chain and the side chains were synthesized by controlled polymerization.

Free Research Field

有機合成・精密重合