Electrochemical polymerization of anthracene in boron trifluoride diethyl etherate

Almost completely dedoped electrochemically deposited luminescent films exhibiting excellent LED performance

“…Traditionally, ED methods were used for preparing conductive films [13][14][15][16][17][18]. Few researchers studied the used of ED for preparing luminescent films for electroluminescent devices.…”

Low-potential electrochemical polymerization of carbazole and its alkyl derivatives

“…In the past 10 years, high quality conducting polymer films have been obtained by choosing boron trifluoride diethyl etherate (BFEE) as solvent and supporting electrolyte [20][21][22][23][24][25], especially when fused ring compounds were used as the monomers, such as indole and its derivatives [26,27], anthracene [28], naphthalene [29,30], benzofuran [31], dibenzofuran [32] etc. The interaction between BFEE and the aromatic monomers can lower the monomer oxidation potentials, and high quality freestanding polymer films can be obtained.…”

Electrosyntheses of high quality freestanding polyselenophene films in boron trifluoride diethyl etherate

“…Under these circumstances, BFEE serves not only as the solvent but also as the supporting electrolyte and no other supporting electrolyte is needed (ionic conductivity of freshly distilled BFEE is about 400 lS cm À1 ). Besides the above mentioned, high quality freestanding poly(paraphenylene) [13,106,107], poly(naphthanene) [108], polyindole [109] and poly(anthracene) [110] films can also be electrochemically prepared in pure BEFE. In order to further improve the properties of electrosynthesized conducting polymer films, the mixed electrolytes of BFEE with strong acid or other organic solvents were also used.…”