Semiconducting Polymers: Controlled Synthesis and Microstructure

Content: Cover
 Contents
 Preface
 Section I: Controlled Synthesis of Semiconducting Polymers
 Chapter 1 Controlled Synthesis of Conjugated Polymers in Catalyst-transfer Condensation Polymerization: Monomers and Catalysts
 1.1 Introduction
 1.2 Kumada-Tamao Coupling Polymerization of Grignard Monomers
 1.2.1 Background and Discovery
 1.2.2 Mechanistic Studies
 1.2.3 Monomers
 1.2.4 Catalysts
 1.2.5 Initiators
 1.2.6 Functionalization of Polymer Ends
 1.3 Suzuki-Miyaura Coupling Polymerization of Boronic Acid (Ester) Monomer
 1.3.1 Background and Discovery
 1.3.2 Monomers. 1.3.3 Initiators and Catalysts1.3.4 Functionalization of Polymer Ends
 1.4 Other Coupling Polymerization Reactions
 1.4.1 Negishi Coupling Polymerization of Zn-containing Monomers
 1.4.2 Stille Coupling Polymerization of Tin-containing Monomers
 1.4.3 Murahashi Coupling Polymerization of Aryllithium Monomers
 1.4.4 Mizoroki-Heck Coupling Polymerization of Non-metallated Monomers
 1.4.5 Nucleophilic Substitution Polymerization of Silylated Monomers
 1.5 Conclusions
 Acknowledgments
 References
 Chapter 2 Controlled Chain-growth Synthesis of Conjugated Polymers: Moving Beyond Thiophene. 2.1 Introduction2.2 Mechanism of Controlled Chain Growth in Conjugated Polymers
 2.3 Chain-growth Synthesis of Conjugated Homopolymers
 2.4 Chain-growth Synthesis of Alternating Copolymers
 2.5 Mixed-mechanism Chain-growth Synthesis of Block Copolymers
 2.6 Chain-growth Synthesis of Fully Conjugated Block Copolymers
 2.7 Chain-growth Synthesis of Other Copolymers
 2.8 Future Outlook
 References
 Chapter 3 Application of Catalyst Transfer Polymerizations: From Conjugated Copolymers to Polymer Brushes
 3.1 Introduction
 3.2 Fully Conjugated Block Copolymers. 3.2.1 Donor-Donor Type Conjugated Block Copolymers3.2.2 Donor-Acceptor Type Fully Conjugated Block Copolymers
 3.3 Conjugated Gradient Copolymers
 3.4 Block Copolymers Consisting of Conjugated and Non-conjugated Blocks
 3.4.1 Synthesis via Macromolecular Coupling Reactions
 3.4.2 Synthesis with Macromolecular Initiators
 3.4.3 Synthesis via One-pot Polymerization
 3.5 Conjugated Polymer Brushes
 3.6 Other Applications
 3.7 Summary and Outlook
 References
 Chapter 4 Controlled Synthesis of Chain End Functional, Block and Branched Polymers Containing Polythiophene Segments
 4.1 Introduction. 4.2 Controlled Synthesis of Polythiophenes4.3 Regio-regularity
 4.4 Control of Molecular Weight and Dispersity
 4.5 Dehydrogenative Synthesis of Polythiophene
 4.6 Chain End Functional Polythiophenes
 4.7 Block Copolymers with Polythiophene Segments
 4.7.1 All-conjugated Block Copolythiophenes
 4.7.2 All-conjugated Block Copolymers Containing Polythiophene and Other Polymer Segments
 4.7.3 All-conjugated Donor-Acceptor Block Copolymers
 4.7.4 Semi-conjugated Block Copolymers Containing Polythiophene Segments
 4.8 Graft Copolymers with Polythiophene Segments.