A new approach to the synthesis of substituted bithiophene and polymers containing thiophene

✍ Scribed by Jingmei Xu; Siu Choon Ng; Hardy S.O. Chan

• Book ID: 104231056
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 81 KB
• Volume: 42
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(01)00995-9

✦ Synopsis

Palladium-catalyzed reaction of Bu 3 SnSnBu 3 with bromo-substituted thiophene or bromo-substituted thiophene-containing monomers is found to generate bithiophene or symmetric polymers containing thiophene in very good yields, respectively.