Functional polymeric materials based on main‐group elements

F Vidal, F Jäkle - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The past decade has witnessed tremendous advances in the synthesis of polymers that
contain elements from the main groups beyond those found in typical organic polymers …

Advances in the synthesis of organoborane polymers for optical, electronic, and sensory applications

F Jäkle - Chemical reviews, 2010 - ACS Publications
The past decade has witnessed renewed interest and numerous unexpected discoveries in
the area of main group organometallic chemistry. Unusual bonding modes have been …

Side chain engineering in solution-processable conjugated polymers

J Mei, Z Bao - Chemistry of Materials, 2014 - ACS Publications
Side chains in conjugated polymers have been primarily utilized as solubilizing groups.
However, these side chains have roles that are far beyond. We advocate using side chain …

Functional oligothiophenes: molecular design for multidimensional nanoarchitectures and their applications

A Mishra, CQ Ma, P Bauerle - Chemical reviews, 2009 - ACS Publications
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Designs of functional π-electron materials based on the characteristic features of boron

A Wakamiya, S Yamaguchi - Bulletin of the Chemical Society of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Boron, a group 13 element, has several characteristic structural and electronic features: 1)
trivalent boron compounds usually adopt a trigonal planar geometry; 2) due to the presence …

Merging thiophene with boron: new building blocks for conjugated materials

Y Ren, F Jäkle - Dalton Transactions, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
This perspective highlights recent progress on the design, synthesis and applications of
thienylboranes as building blocks for new functional materials. Well-controlled synthetic …

Multistep synthesis of complex boronic acids from simple MIDA boronates

EP Gillis, MD Burke - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2008 - ACS Publications
Due to its sensitivity to most synthetic reagents, it is typically necessary to introduce the
boronic acid functional group just prior to its utilization. Overcoming this important limitation …

Conjugated main-group polymers for optoelectronics

X He, T Baumgartner - RSC advances, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
The last decade has witnessed great progress in conjugated polymers for application in
optoelectronics. The biggest driving force for the field is to develop polymers with suitable …

Aryl (hydro) boranes: versatile building blocks for boron-doped π-electron materials

A Lorbach, A Hübner, M Wagner - Dalton Transactions, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Boron-containing π-conjugated molecules offer a substantial application potential in the field
of organic electronics. During the last decade, aryl (hydro) boranes have established …

Visible-induced photocatalytic reactivity of polymer–sensitized titania nanotube films

H Liang, X Li - Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2009 - Elsevier
In this study, polythiophene–TiO2 nanotube films (PTh/TNT) were successfully prepared by
a two-step electrochemical process of anodization and electropolymerization, in which a …