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unless otherwise noted. Methanol and acetone were
dried over molecular sieve. 1,4-bis(dodecyloxy)benzene
was synthesized by an adapted literature procedure.15
flask. The system was deoxygenated with three cycles
of vacuum-argon cycling. Tetrahydrothiophene (2.000 g,
23.00 mmol) was added into the system. The mixture
was stirred at 55 ℃ for 22 h under argon atmosphere.
The solvent was completely removed with rotary
evaporation and the residue was purified with dry ace-
tone. The mixture was then filtered and the resulting
solid was dried in vacuum to give a white solid (1.302 g,
yield 52%). 1H NMR (CDCl3, 400 MHz) δ: 6.85 (s, 2H),
4.53 (s, 4H), 3.94—4.01 (m, 4H), 2.78—2.86 (m, 8H),
1.88—1.97 (m, 8H), 1.75—1.85 (m, 4H), 1.06—1.52
(m, 36H), 0.82—0.90 (m, 6H); IR (KBr) ν: 2917, 1627,
1510, 1475, 1415, 1398, 1322, 1233, 1110, 1029, 865,
General methods
1H NMR spectra were recorded using an Inova 400
MHz NMR spectrometer with CDCl3 as the solvent and
TMS as the internal reference. FTIR spectra of the
monomers, the precursor polymer and the PPV poly-
mers were obtained on a Nicolet 6700 FT-IR spectro-
photometer (thermo). The samples were prepared by
adding monomers, precursor polymer or PPVs into KBr,
and the mixture was ground to a fine power and pressed
to form disks. The elemental analysis was carried out on
a Carlo-Erba EA-1110. The molecular weight was de-
termined on a Waters 1515 gel permeation chromato-
graph with THF as the mobile phase and PS as the
standard. The UV-vis spectra were obtained using a Hi-
tachi U-3900/3900H spectrophotometer. The solution
UV-vis and fluorescence measurements were carried out
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794, 713, 653 cm . Anal. calcd for C40H72S2O2Br2: C
59.40, H 8.91; found C 59.48, H 8.83.
The precursor polymer of poly(2,5- didodecyloxy-
p-phenylenevinylene) (pre-PPV) 1,l'-[((2,5-Didode-
cyloxy)-p-phenylene)bis(methylene)]bis[tetrahydrothio-
phenium]dibromide (1.009 g, 1.23 mmol), and 26.0 mL
of THF were placed into pre-dried 50.0 mL two-necked
round bottom flask. The system was deoxygenated by
three cycles of vacuum-argon cycling and maintained
the temperature at 0 ℃. 2.0 mL of ice-cold, Ar-purged
methanolic NaOH solution (1.25 mol/L) was added in a
slow stream to the system. The mixture was stirred at 0
℃ for 1 h followed adding of 2.0 mL of HCl (1.00
mol/L) into the system. The mixture was then dialyzed
with cellulose membrane dialysis tubing with a molecu-
lar mass cutoff of 3500 Da in water for 12 h, during
which the water was changed for every 2 h. The mixture
inside the membrane was filtered. The precursor poly-
mer was collected as a pale yellow powder and dried in
in THF with a concentration of 1×10- mol/L with re-
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spect to the repeating unit of precursor polymer. The
solid UV-vis and fluorescence measurements were car-
ried out with the PPV film on quartz slides, prepared
through drop-casting or spin-coating technique, with a
concentration of 1×10- 2 mol/L with respect to the re-
peating unit of prepcusor polymer in CHCl3, and 20
mg/mL of PMMA codissolved in CHCl3. The
spin-coating was carried out on a Spin-coater KW-4A
from Chemmat Technology, started with 6 s at the rate
of 400 r/min and followed by 10 s at the rate of 1000
r/min. The drop-casting was carried out at room tem-
perature (around 20 ℃) for 8 min. Morphological stud-
ies of the films were carried out using a Hitachi S-4700
scanning electron microscope (SEM).
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vacuum overnight. H NMR (CDCl3, 400 MHz) δ:
6.82—6.93 (m, 2H), 4.36—4.47 (m, 1H), 3.91—4.00
(m, 4H), 3.47 (s, 2H), 2.80—2.87 (m, 4H), 1.91—1.97
(m, 4H), 1.71—1.83 (m, 4H), 1.18—1.51 (m, 36H),
0.84—0.92 (m, 6H); IR (KBr) ν: 2921, 1618, 1513,
1467, 1417, 1384, 1307, 1218, 1108, 1041, 952, 896,
Synthesis
1,4-Bis(bromomethyl)-2,5-bis-(dodecyloxy)ben-
zene Formaldehyde (0.145 g, 48.30 mmol), 1,4-
bis(dodecyloxy)benzene (5.100 g, 11.20 mmol), HBr
(17.5 mL, 50 wt% in acetic acid) and 30.0 mL of acetic
acid were placed into a round bottom flask. The mixture
was stirred under room temperature for 30 min and 80
℃ for 3.0 h. Then the solvents were completely re-
moved under reduced pressure. The crude product was
purified by redissolving it in chloroform and reprecipi-
tated out of ethanol to give a white power (5.450 g,
yield 77%). 1H NMR (CDCl3, 400 MHz) δ: 6.85 (s, 2H),
4.53 (s, 4H), 3.93—4.02 (m, 4H), 1.76—1.87 (m, 4H),
1.20—1.52 (m, 36H), 0.84—0.92 (m, 6H); IR (KBr) ν:
2918, 1627, 1510, 1473, 1413, 1313, 1226, 1033, 863,
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865, 825, 721 cm . Anal. calcd for (C36H63SO2Br2)n: C
67.60, H 9.86; found C 68.45, H 10.52.
Thermal elimination
The precursor polymers were heated at 60, 100, 120,
140, 160 and 200 ℃ for 2 h in vacuum to a series of
poly(2,5-didodecyloxy-p-phenylenevinylene)s (PPVs)
with various elimination extent. The PPVs were named
as PPV60, PPV100, PPV120, PPV140, PPV160, and
PPV200 respectively according to the thermal elimina-
tion temperature. All the PPVs were powder in different
shades of yellow.
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719, 690 cm . Anal. calcd for C32H56O2Br2: C 60.76, H
8.86; found C 60.62, H 9.08.
Results and discussion
1,l'-[((2,5-Didodecyloxy)-p-phenylene)bis(methyl-
The PPVs were synthesized based on the Wessling
method as shown in Scheme 1. The precursor polymer
was prepared by a modification of previous literature
ene)]bis[tetrahydrothiophenium]dibromide
1,4-
Bis-(bromomethyl)-2,5-bis(dodecyloxy)benzene (1.950
g, 3.10 mmol), and anhydrous methanol (20.3 mL) were
placed into pre-dried 50.0 mL two-necked round bottom
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reports.15 The H NMR spectra of the monomers,
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