Poly(3-alkylthiophene) with tuneable regioregularity: synthesis and self-assembling properties

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Publication Date 2013-03-05
DOI 10.1039/C3PY00236E
Impact Factor 5.582
Authors

Pieter Willot, Joost Steverlynck, David Moerman, Philippe Leclère, Roberto Lazzaroni, Guy Koeckelberghs


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Abstract

This work reports a synthetic strategy to generate poly(3-alkylthiophene)s (P3ATs) with joint-simultaneous control of the molar mass and the regioregularity. A series of chiral P3ATs with different regioregularities is synthesized using a Pd(RuPhos)-catalyzed chain-growth polymerisation. All polymers have molar masses and polydispersities (PDI) that lie within a narrow region. Furthermore, it is shown that the Pd-catalyst forms all kinds of couplings [head-to-tail (HT), tail-to-tail (TT) and head-to-head (HH)] to a similar extent, which allows insertion of predictable amounts of regio-irregularities into the polymer chain. This enables a thorough study of the influence of the regioregularity on the properties of P3AT, which was performed using UV-vis and circular dichroïsm (CD) spectroscopy, differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and atomic force microscopy (AFM) measurements. Unexpectedly, it is found that under “kinetic” conditions the highest crystallinity, π-stacking, supramolecular organisation and chiral expression are not obtained for fully regioregular P3AT with 100% HT couplings, but that a small amount of regio-irregularity increases these properties and the chiral expression. Under “thermodynamic” conditions (after annealing, very slow solvent evaporation or very slow cooling from the melt), this effect is less pronounced or not found. This behaviour can be explained by a higher degree of motional freedom within the non-perfect polymer chains due to the increased steric repulsion from the HH-couplings, which leads to a more easy stacking under “kinetic” conditions.

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