Dehydrocoupling and Silazane Cleavage Routes to Organic–Inorganic Hybrid Polymers with NBN Units in the Main Chain

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 55, Issue 25, 2016, Pages 7236-7241

  Lorenz, Thomas ^a   Lik, Artur ^a   Plamper, Felix A ^a   Helten, Holger ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

boron; hybrid materials; inorganic polymers; main group polymers; conjugated polymers

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC POLYMERS; BORON; CROSSLINKING; HYBRID MATERIALS; INORGANIC POLYMERS; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS;

CROSSLINKING REACTION; DEHYDROCOUPLINGS; INORGANIC HYBRIDS; MAIN GROUP; MOLECULAR MODELING SYSTEMS; ORGANIC OPTOELECTRONICS; ORGANOBORON POLYMERS; SOLUBLE MATERIALS;

CONJUGATED POLYMERS;

EID: 84973885562     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: 15213773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201602342     Document Type: Article

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