Post polymerization functionalization of soluable poly(2,5-dithienylpyrrole)s

5^th World Congress on Materials Science & Engineering

June 13-15, 2016 Alicante, Spain

Pinar Camurlu and Nese Guven

Akdeniz University, Turkey

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Material Sci Eng

Abstract :

Herein we disclose synthesis of a azide containing, soluable 2,5-dithienylpyrrole (SNS) based polymer and provide a pioneer study which demonstrates capability and versatility of click chemistry in efficient functionalization of the polymer. For this purpose, Chem-PSNS-N3 was synthesized via chemical polymerization of 1-(2-azido-ethyl)-2,5-dithiophene-2-yl-1Hpyrrole (SNS-N3) in the presence of FeCl3. The resultant polymer was shown to be electroactive which could also be chemically doped via addition of SbCl5. A versatile synthetic protocol for the post-functionalization of Chem-PSNS-N3 with two different terminal alkynes was developed. The alkynes having ferrocene and fluorescein functionalities were deliberately chosen in order to manipulate the redox, optoelectronic, florescence and doping properties of poly(2,5-dithienylpyrrole)s. We are grateful to TUBITAK (Project No: 110T640) for the support of this study.

Biography :

Pinar Camurlu received her BSc (1999), MSc (2001) and PhD (2006) degrees from Department of Chemistry at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. She has been working as an Associated Professor in Department of Chemistry at Akdeniz University (Antalya, Turkey) since 2010. Her research is focused on the design and synthesis of functional conjugated polymers and their applications such as; electrochromic devices, light emitting diodes, biosensors and chemisensors. She has published more than 45 papers in SCI journals and took part as a co-author for three international scientific book chapters.

Email: pinarcamurlu@gmail.com