Solid-State Thermolytic and Catalytic Reactions in Functionalized Regioregular Polythiophenes
Bibliographic record
Abstract
(3-(2-(2-Tetrahydropyranyloxy)ethyl)thiophene) (THPET) was homopolymerized (PTHPET) and copolymerized with 3-hexylthiophene (PTHPET- co -3HT) to obtain functionalized regioregular π-conjugated polymers. Thermolytic and catalytic removal of the bulky tetrahydropyran (THP) group from thin solid films of the polymers was studied. Thermolytic cleavage of the THP group occurs with a remarkably high yield in the solid state. Deprotection can be achieved catalytically in the presence of acids, at a significantly lower temperature. For PTHPET homopolymer, an increased degree of conjugation persists upon removal of the THP group. Copolymer films, however, exhibit a melting transition and a subsequent decrease in coplanarity at high temperatures. This disorder prevails upon cooling due to either strong interchain H-bonding or the absence of crystallizable side chains. When deprotection is carried out at lower temperatures, a high degree of π-delocalization can be retained. The influence of composition on the reactivity of the polymers is described.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".