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Synfacts 2010(8): 0895-0895  
DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1257829
Synthesis of Materials and Unnatural Products
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Sticky Caps for Polymers

Contributor(s): Timothy M. Swager
V. D. B. Bonifácio*, J. Morgado, U. Scherf
University of Wuppertal, Germany; Instituo Superior Técnico, Lisboa and Instituto de Telecomunicaçoes, Lisboa and Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
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22 July 2010 (online)

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Significance

The electrode polymer interface is critical to most applications of electronic polymers. Thiols and disulfides are particularly important groups for the bonding to gold electrodes that are often used in molecular electronics. Reactive thiols are generally incompatible with the ­transition-metal coupling reactions that are used to synthesize electronic polymers. Hence, the thiosulfonate group used is a means to endcap polymers with a masked dithiol group.