RAFT Polymerization Meets Coordination Chemistry: Synthesis of a Polymer-Based Iridium(III) Emitter

✍ Scribed by Christoph Ulbricht; Caglar Remzi Becer; Andreas Winter; Ulrich S. Schubert

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 363 KB
• Volume: 31
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1022-1336
• DOI: 10.1002/marc.200900787

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

A synthetic approach toward the synthesis of well‐defined copolymers with attached phosphorescent iridium(III) emitters is presented. A reactive µ‐hydroxy‐bridged precursor complex has been utilized to coordinate suitable ligand sites of a methacrylate‐based copolymer. The starting copolymer has been synthesized via the reversible addition fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization technique. Using a reactive complex species, the coordination reaction at the copolymer could be performed under very mild conditions in the absence of any supporting additives.

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