Head-to-tail coupled, regioregular

R.S. Loewe, S.M. Khersonsky, and R.D. McCullough, A simple method to prepare head-to-tail coupled, regioregular poly(3-alkylthiophenes) using Grignard metathesis, Adv. Mater., 11 250-253, 1999. 

R.S. Loewe, P.C. Ewbank, J. Liu, L. Zhai, and R.D. McCullough, Regioregular, head-to-tail coupled poly(3-alkylthiophenes) made easy but the GRIM method investigation of the reaction and the origin of regioselectivity, Macromolecules, 34 4324-4333, 2001. 

SCHEME 9.1 The McCullough method for the regioregular synthesis of poly(3-alkylthiophene) (P3AT) with 100% head-to-tail couplings. 

McCullough, R.D. 1998. Regioregular, head-to-tail coupled poly(3-alkylthiophene) and its derivatives. In Handbook of conducting polymers, 2nd ed., eds. T.A. Skotheim, R.L. Elsenbaumer, J. R. Reynolds. NewYork Marcell Dekker, pp. 225-258. 

SCHEME 7.6 Solid phase synthesis of regioregular, head-to-tail coupled, oligo 3-hexyl-thiophenes. 

T. Kirschbaum, C. A. Briehn and P. Bauerle, Efficient solid-phase synthesis of regioregular head-to-tail-coupled oligo(3-aIkylthiophene)s up to a dodecamer, J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 1, 1211-1216 (2000). 

P. C. Ewbank, G. Nuding, H. Suenaga, R. D. McCullough and S. Shinkai. Regioregular, head to tail coupled, amine functionalized pol5dhiophenes. Polym. Prepr. (Am. Chem. Soc., Div. Polym. Chem.) 40(2), 855 (1999). 

Regioregular, Head-to-Tail Coupled Poly(3-alkylthiophene) and Its Derivatives... 

IV. REGIOREGULAR, HEAD-TO-TAIL COUPLED POLY(3-ALKYLTHIOPHENES)... 

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