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EPSRC Reference:	GR/K48952/01
Title:	SYNTHESIS OF CONJUGATED PROPHYRIN POLYMERS
Principal Investigator:	Anderson, Professor HL
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Department:	Oxford Chemistry
Organisation:	University of Oxford
Scheme:	Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts:	01 January 1996	Ends:	31 December 1997	Value (£):	89,911
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Materials Synthesis & Growth
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We propose to synthesise new porphyrin polymers, all of which will be highly conjugated and exhibit unusual electronic, optical and magnetic properties. We will develop synthetic methodologies for building polymers and oligomers with defined lengths and sequences, and with porphyrins connected by a variety of conjugated links. We will attach pyridine groups perpendicular to the covalent backbone; these will co-ordinate to the metal centres of other metalloporphyrin polymer strands. Thus supramolecular chemistry will be used to control both the properties and the synthesis of these polymers. Rational self-assembly will dictate their conformations. Self-replication will direct their synthesis. This will open up ways of controlling polymer synthesis which have previously been used only by living organisms. We will create new materials for a diversity of potential applications in electronics and electro-optics.
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