Incorporation of zinc(II) porphyrins in polyaniline in its perigraniline form leading to polymers with the lowest band gap

Simon Lamare; Shawkat M Aly; Daniel Fortin; Pierre D Harvey

doi:10.1039/c1cc14026d

Incorporation of zinc(II) porphyrins in polyaniline in its perigraniline form leading to polymers with the lowest band gap

Chem Commun (Camb). 2011 Oct 21;47(39):10942-4. doi: 10.1039/c1cc14026d. Epub 2011 Sep 7.

Authors

Simon Lamare¹, Shawkat M Aly, Daniel Fortin, Pierre D Harvey

Affiliation

¹ Département de Chimie, Université de Sherbrooke, 2550 Boulevard de l'Université, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada J1K 2R1.

PMID: 21897981
DOI: 10.1039/c1cc14026d

Abstract

Conjugated copolymers built upon quinone diimine-zinc(II) porphyrin units exhibit a very low lying charge transfer band at 800 nm and are strongly emissive from the S(2) and T(2) states.