Novel liquid-crystalline PPE-naphthalene copolymers displaying blue solid-state fluorescence

6 January 2000

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

No. 1,p. 85-86
https://doi.org/10.1039/a907479a

Abstract

Synthesis of poly(p-phenyleneethynylene)s (PPEs) containing 1,5-diethynyl-3,7-di-tert-butylnaphthalene leads to novel phenylene-naphthylene-ethynylene copolymers which show strong blue luminescence in the solid state.

Keywords

BLUE
PPE
BUTYLNAPHTHALENE
DIETHYNYL
ETHYNYLENE
TERT
FLUORESCENCE
NAPHTHYLENE