| Abstract: | Several polymers have been prepared by electropolymerization of mixtures of pyrrole (PY) and 2,2′-bithiophene (BT). Cyclic voltammetry on prepared polymer films shows three anodic oxidation peaks, two of which match the oxidation potentials of homopolymeric PY and BT, and a third which is intermediate. UV/visible spectroscopy displays a unique spectrum for each of the reduced and oxidized forms of these polymers. Nernstian plots from UV/visible data exhibit three well-defined redox couples in polymer films produced at 1.3 V. Overall, the data strongly support the formation of a copolymer, consisting of three distinct oxidizable units. Two of these can be attributed to short blocks of either PY or BT, and a third to random and alternate groupings of PY and BT. The polymers produced are electrically conductive, but the conductivity drops rapidly as BT units are introduced into a homopolymer of PY. © 1992 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. |
