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MACROMOLECULES
Volume 49, Issue 23, Pages 8888-8898Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.6b02098
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- National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) [2013CB834701, 2013CB834702]
- University Grants Committee of Hong Kong [AoE/P-03/08]
- National Science Foundation of China [21490570, 21490574]
- Research Grants Council of Hong Kong [16305014, 16303815, 16308116]
- Nissan Chemical Industries, Ltd.
- Innovation and Technology Commission [ITC-CNERC14SC01, ITCPD117-9]
- Guangdong Innovative Ressearch Team Program [201101C0105067115]
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A facile, one-pot, three-component polymerization route for in situ generation of polymers with aggregation-induced emission (AIE) characteristics was developed. The polycoupling of dibromoarenes, internal diynes and potassium ferrocyanide was catalyzed by palladium acetate and sodium bicarbonate and proceeded smoothly in dimethylacetamide under nitrogen at 120 degrees C, producing poly(triphenylacrylonitrite)s (PTPANs) with high weight-average molecular weights of up to 223000 in high yields of up to 84%. This polymerization method enjoys the remarkable advantages of high reaction rate and efficiency and broad monomer scope. Model reaction was carried out to aid the structure characterization and property investigation of the obtained polymers. All the polymers show remarkable thermal stability, losing merely 5% of their weight at high temperature of up to 513 degrees C. They are soluble in common organic solvents and their spin-coated thin films exhibit high refractive indices (1.6482-1.7682). Thanks to the triphenylethene chromophore in situ generated during the polymerization, all the polymers are ALE-active and show strong light emission in the solid state. While UV irradiation of the polymer thin films in air through upper masks photo-oxidizes the exposed parts and quenches their light emission, the unexposed parts remain emissive. Two-dimensional fluorescent patterns with good resolution are thus generated.
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