Synthesis and properties of new carbazole-containing metallopolymers with transannular polyconjugation in the backbone

Abstract

New metal-containing polymers, poly(salicylidene azomethines) containing metal atoms (Co, Ni, Cu) in the backbone, were synthesized from aromatic carbazolediamine derivatives. It was found that the polymers with a decyl substituent in the carbazole fragment are soluble in organic solvents (chloroform, methanol, DMSO, DMF) and exhibit film-forming and semiconductor properties. IR and NMR spectroscopy was used to show that the semiconductor properties of the new polymers are associated with the presence in the polymer backbone of transannular polyconjugation zones formed by intramolecular donor‒acceptor interactions of the metal and nitrogen valence shells.