aDepartment of Chemistry, Nano-Science Center and Molecular Engineering Group, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 5, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
Abstract:
Simple and readily accessible aryl bromides are useful building blocks for thiol end-capped molecular wires. Thus, 4-bromophenyl tert-butyl sulfide and 1-bromo-4-(methoxymethyl)benzene serve as precursors for a variety of oligo(phenylenevinylene) and oligo(phenyleneethynylene) wires via efficient synthetic transformations as presented in this paper.