Combinatorial Synthesis of Conducting Polymers. Pani Modified by Diazonium Coupling.

D.F. ACEVEDO, M.C. MIRAS, C.A. BARBERO

Francia

Conferencia; 40th IUPAC Word Polymer Congress. Francia; 2004

Conductive polymers could have a variety of applications. The usual way to produce new ICP involves the synthesis or acquisition of a monomer, homopolymerization or copolimerization, followed for detailed study of the polymer properties. Another, less explored, route to produce materials with varying properties involves post modification of already synthesized, and well characterized, conducting polymers. An alternative approach involves the combinatorial synthesis, coupled to high throughput screening of compounds. The method was initially developed to accelerate the discovery of pharmaceutical compounds, and has then beenextended to the search of materials and polymers. Several compounds are produced through the reaction of several substrates with several reactants by the same reaction. The method will beillustrated using the reaction of combinatorially synthesized diazonium salts with polyaniline.