A mild, copper catalyzed route to conducting polyaniline.
The aniline dimer, N-(4-aminophenyl)aniline has been polymerized cleanly under mild conditions to obtain an emeraldine base form of polyaniline using [MeB(3-(Mes)Pz)3]CuCl as the catalyst and H2O2 as the oxidant, while the subsequent acidification of the emeraldine base gives the conducting emeraldine salt form of polyaniline.
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Arlington, Texas 76019-0065, USA. dias@uta.edu
H V Rasika
HV
Dias
Xiaoyu
X
Wang
R M Gamini
RM
Rajapakse
Ronald L
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Elsenbaumer