Towards High Performing Conjugated Polymers of Low-synthetic Complexity
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The performance of a range of organic electronic devices, from photovoltaics (OPV) cells to organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) has made impressive progress over recent years, in part due to improvements in material design and synthesis. However, some of the resulting active materials now require complex, multi-step synthesis, potentially limiting their implementation at larger scale. Here I will discuss approaches to readily prepare building blocks in just one or two steps. Such approaches allow the preparation of conjugated polymers of low synthetic complexity which can be readily upscaled. I will highlight how this approach can be used to readily build libraries of conjugated polymers to more rapidly identify promising materials for application in OPV and OECT devices. Finally approaches to introduce additional functionality via post-polymerisation backbone modification will be discussed.