Synthesis of PF Monomers

From I.I. Perepichka, I.F. Perepichka, M.R. Bryce, and L.O. Palsson, Chem. Commun., 3397-3399, 2005. 

7-Dibromo-9,9-dioctylfluorene 624 was obtained as described above procedure and after the column chromatography was additionally recrystallized from ethanol yielding pure product in 78% yield. H NMR (400 MHz, CDC13) 8 7.52 (2H, dd, J3 4 = 8.0 Hz, 

From Sonar, P., Zhang, J., Grimsdale, A.C., Mullen, K., Surin, M., Lazzaroni, R., Leclere, P., Tierney, S., Heeney, M., and McCulloch, I., Macromolecules, 37 709-715, 2004. Copyright 2004, American Chemical Society, Washington, D.C. With permission. 

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