화학공학소재연구정보센터
Macromolecules, Vol.49, No.24, 9388-9395, 2016
Suppression of Homocoupling Side Reactions in Direct Arylation Polycondensation for Producing High Performance OPV Materials
Suppression of side reactions in C-H direct arylation polycondensation is important for developing this method as a reliable synthetic tool for conjugated polymer materials. To find appropriate reaction conditions for avoiding homocoupling side reactions, two types of reaction conditions were investigated: the direct arylation of electron-rich C-H monomers in N,N-dimethylacetamide (DMAc system) and the direct arylation of electron-poor C-H monomers in toluene (toluene system). The investigation reveals that homocoupling side reactions are suppressed under the toluene system. Because the combination of electron-poor C-H monomer (acceptor) and electron-rich C-Br monomer (donor) is applicable to the toluene system, a donor acceptor polymer without a defect structure can be synthesized under the toluene system. The obtained polymer shows almost same power conversion efficiency- (PCE) in bulk-heterojunction OPVs as the same polymer prepared by a conventional method and purified by Soxhlet extraction. These results show that the established direct arylation polycondensation affords a high-quality material in terms of both structural integrity and purity. OPV cells with an optimized device structure result in a maximum PCE of 6.8%.