Polyfuran synthesis

Zotti, G., et al. 1990. Electrochemical synthesis and characterization of polyconjugated polyfuran. Synth Met 36 337. 

Among all the methods of synthesis to produce polypyrrole, the electrochemical procedure is, with difference, the most useful to obtain polypyrroles having high conductivities. The general details of electrochemical synthesis of polypyrrole are similar to other conducting polymers such as polythiophene or polyfurane. The flow of an anodic current in a simple electrochemical cell, through a solution containing a... 

The discovery of highly conducting poly acetylene in 1977 [1] prompted the synthesis of other polymers with conjugated 7r-systems such as polypyrrole [2], poly-p-phenyl-ene [3], poly-p-phenylenevinylene [4], polyphenylenesulflde [5, 6], polyaniline [7], as well as of other poly heterocycles such as polythiophene [8], polyfuran [8], poly-selenophene [9], or more extended polyaromatics such as polyazulene [10]. Because they can have a variety of structural variations, polythiophenes have become the type of conducting polymer most frequently investigated because conductivity is mostly unaffected by substituents [11]. In addition, both conducting and semiconducting polythiophenes are very stable and readily characterized. 

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