Volume 39, Issue 16 pp. 2897-2900
Communication

A Highly Conductive Macrocycle-Linked Metallophthalocyanine Polymer

Richard P. Kingsborough

Richard P. Kingsborough

Department of Chemistry and Center for Material Science and Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 02139 (USA) Fax: (+1) 617-253-8929

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Timothy M. Swager Prof.

Timothy M. Swager Prof.

Department of Chemistry and Center for Material Science and Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 02139 (USA) Fax: (+1) 617-253-8929

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Funding from the Office of Naval Research is gratefully acknowledged. This work was supported in part by the MRSEC Program of the National Science Foundation under award number DMR 98–08941.

Abstract

A macrocycle-linked polymer architecture that involves thiophene linkages between the phthalocyanine rings (see picture) has been found to have conductivities three orders of magnitude higher than previously investigated macrocycle-linked materials. Rigid three-dimensional iptycene scaffolds were used to prevent aggregation of the macrocycles, and yield highly soluble monomers with a cleft around the axial coordination sites of the metal center.

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