Design and Synthesis of Polyphenylene Ethylene Polymers

Sudeep and co-workers [41] synthesised three series of well-defined cationic oligomers, i.e., oligomeric p-phenylene ethynylenes (OPE), with different chain lengths and different end groups on the main chain to study structure-reactivity relationships through photophysical and antimicrobial properties [41, 42]. 

Wang and co-workers [46] studied the interactions of PPE-based cationic conjugated polyelectrolytes (CPE) and OPE using Escherichia coli cells to gain an understanding of the dissimilarities in the killing mechanisms between CPE and OPE in dark 

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