Enhanced Approaches to the Synthesis of Well-Defined Conjugated Polymers for Fluorescent Chemosensors

摘要

Fluorescent conjugated polymer chemosensors have recently been an active area of research.1 There is a continuing need in this area for synthetic strategies, which lead to improved sensitivity and selectivity to a variety of analytes. We have been exploring the class of polymers involving the poly-phenylene-ethynylene-thiophene-ethynylene (PPETE) backbone containing pendant receptors.