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Contents Vol 64(3)

Why Do Some Alkoxybromothiophenes Spontaneously Polymerize?

Pawel Wagner A , Kenneth W. Jolley B and David L. Officer A C
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A Intelligent Polymer Research Centre and ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterial Sciences, AIIM Facility, Innovation Campus, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia.

B Nanomaterials Research Centre and MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials, Massey University, Private Bag 11222, Palmerston North, New Zealand.

C Corresponding author. Email: davido@uow.edu.au

Australian Journal of Chemistry 64(3) 335-338 https://doi.org/10.1071/CH10413
Submitted: 12 November 2010  Accepted: 25 January 2011   Published: 11 March 2011

Abstract

Neat liquid 3-alkoxy-2-bromothiophenes such as 2-bromo-EDOT have been shown to autopolymerize at room temperature and above, depending on their proton acidity and the nature and arrangement of substituents.


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