Abstract
Dendrimers offer the opportunity to vary the electronic properties of an electroactive material without changing the processing procedure. Poly(1,4-phenylenevinylene) and its derivatives have been widely studied for use in light-emitting diodes. We have investigated two different iterative routes for the formation of phenylenevinylene based dendrimers to compare their properties with the linear counterparts. Our approach involves palladium-catalysed coupling of styryl derivatives to halo-benzenes which has enabled the rapid construction of a family of dendrimers.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1468 |
| Number of pages | 1468 |
| Journal | Synthetic Metals |
| Volume | 102 |
| Publication status | Published - Jun 1999 |
Keywords
- transition-metal-catalysed reactions
- electroluminescence
- organic semiconductors based on conjugated molecules