Electrosynthesis of Conducting Polyanisidine in biphasic media

✍ Scribed by G. A. Munaff; Shua'a Omer; K. Zutshi

• Book ID: 105353739
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 364 KB
• Volume: 332
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1615-4150
• DOI: 10.1002/prac.19903320512

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The electrochemical polymerization of anisidine, a soluble conducting polymer has been studied in the two phase media. One phase comprises of a non‐polar solvent containing the monomer and the other a polar medium containing some added electrolytes. The process of electropolymerization has been catalyzed by FeCl~3~ as the suitable supporting electrolyte. Polyanisidine was obtained in moderate yields with the highest R~p~ of 0.0296% per hour and a maximum polymerization efficiency of 59.50 × 10^−2^ mol/faraday. These materials show great potential for applications to areas such as molecular electronic devices, batteries and chemically modified electrodes and sensors. The soluble polymer was analyzed using a variety of common experimental techniques including infrared spectroscopy, proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy and gel permeation chromatography. The conductivity determined by using a classical two‐probe technique displays a value in the range of 10^−7^ to 2.3 Ω^−1^ cm^−1^. The observations and experimental results suggest a cationic polymerization mechanism.