π-Conjugated Donor and Donor-Acceptor Metallo-Polymers

Andreas Wild; Florian Schlütter; Georges M Pavlov; Christian Friebe; Grit Festag; Andreas Winter; Martin D Hager; Vera Cimrová; Ulrich S Schubert

doi:10.1002/marc.200900889

π-Conjugated Donor and Donor-Acceptor Metallo-Polymers

Macromol Rapid Commun. 2010 May 12;31(9-10):868-74. doi: 10.1002/marc.200900889. Epub 2010 Apr 16.

Authors

Andreas Wild¹, Florian Schlütter, Georges M Pavlov, Christian Friebe, Grit Festag, Andreas Winter, Martin D Hager, Vera Cimrová, Ulrich S Schubert

Affiliation

¹ Laboratory of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Humboldtstr.10, D-07743 Jena, Germany; Dutch Polymer Institute (DPI), P.O. Box 902, 5600 AX Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

PMID: 21590981
DOI: 10.1002/marc.200900889

Abstract

Two zinc(II)- and two ruthenium(II) containing π-conjugated metallo-polymers were synthesized and characterized in detail. We could prove by SEC, analytical ultracentrifugation (AUC) and viscosimetry the ruthenium(II) metallo-polymers to be high molar mass materials (M(fs) = 20 000 g · mol(-1) Ru1-2; M(fs) = 34 000 g · mol(-1) Ru1) exhibiting intrinsic viscosities of up to [η] = 192 · cm(3) · g(-1) . Applying spin-coating we produced homogeneous films of the polymers and could, subsequently, investigate the photophysical properties in the solid state. Introducing the Ru(II) metallo-polymers mixed with PCBM[60] as photoactive layer in bulk-heterojunction solar cells resulted in very low efficiencies due to morphology problems.