Regiochemistry of poly(3-hexylthiophene): Synthesis and investigation of a conducting polymer

Journal of Chemical Education

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 522-525

  Pappenfus, Ted M ^a   Hermanson, David L ^a   Kohl, Stuart G ^a   Melby, Jacob H ^a   Thoma, Laura M ^a   Carpenter, Nancy E ^a   Da Silva Filho, Demetrio A ^b   Bredas, Jean Luc ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Catalysis; Computational chemistry; Grignard reagents; Hands on learning manipulatives; Heterocycles; Inorganic chemistry; Inquiry based discovery learning; Laboratory instruction; NMR spectroscopy; Organic chemistry; Organometallics; Polymer chemistry; Second year undergraduate; Synthesis; Upper division undergraduate; UV vis spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955897566     PISSN: 00219584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ed800144p     Document Type: Article

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