‘Organic metals.’ Reaction of FeCl₃with polyacetylene, (CH)_x, and poly-(p-phenylene), (p-C₆H₄)_x

1 January 1981

journal article
research article
Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications

No. 15,p. 783-784
https://doi.org/10.1039/c39810000783

Abstract

Films of the polymer semiconductor polyacetylene, (CH)_x and powders of the polymer semiconductor poly-(pphenylene), (pC₆H₄)_x, when treated with FeCL₃(dissolved in dry nitromethane), are converted into organic metals which exhibit high p-type conductivity due to the oxidation of the π-system of the polymers, with the concomitant complete reducation of Fe³⁺ to Fe²⁺, as evidenced by Mössbauer spectroscopy.

Keywords

POLYACETYLENE
FECL
ORGANIC METALS
PHENYLENE
SEMICONDUCTOR
SUP
NITROMETHANE

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‘Organic metals.’ Reaction of FeCl₃with polyacetylene, (CH)_x, and poly-(p-phenylene), (p-C₆H₄)_x