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POLYMER CHEMISTRY
Volume 4, Issue 5, Pages 1372-1380Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c2py20758c
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- National Science Foundation of China [20974028]
- RPC Grant of HKUST [RPC10SC13, RPC11SC09, SRFI11SC03PG]
- SRFI Grant of HKUST [RPC10SC13, RPC11SC09, SRFI11SC03PG]
- Research Grants Council of Hong Kong [604711, 602212, HKUST2/CRF/10, N_HKUST620/11]
- Innovation and Technology Commission [ITCPD/17-9]
- University Grants Committee of Hong Kong [AoE/P-03/08]
- Guangdong Innovative Research Team Program
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A new route for the synthesis of functional polymers was developed. Oxidative polycoupling of 4,4'-(alpha,omega-alkylenedioxy) bis(diphenylacetylene)s with phenylboronic acid and (1,1,2-triphenylvinyl)phenylboronic acid, respectively, was catalyzed by [Cp*RhCl2](2) and oxidants in dimethylformamide, affording soluble polymers with highly substituted naphthalene rings in satisfactory yields with moderate molecular weights. All the polymers were thermally and morphologically stable, showing high thermal-degradation and glass-transition temperatures of 317-404 degrees C and 95-168 degrees C, respectively. They were film-forming and their thin solid films showed high refractive indices (RI = 1.7414-1.6038) in a wide wavelength region of 400-1600 nm. The polymer carrying tetraphenylethene unit was weakly emissive in solution but emitted intensely in the condensed phase, displaying a phenomenon of aggregation-induced emission. The emission of its nanoaggregates could be quenched by picric acid with large quenching constants, making it promising as a sensitive chemosensor for efficient detection of explosives.
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