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  • A strategy for revealing the packing in semicrystalline π-conjugated polymers: crystal structure of bulk poly-3-hexyl-thiophene (P3HT).

A strategy for revealing the packing in semicrystalline π-conjugated polymers: crystal structure of bulk poly-3-hexyl-thiophene (P3HT).

Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) (2012-10-06)
Dmytro Dudenko, Adam Kiersnowski, Jie Shu, Wojciech Pisula, Daniel Sebastiani, Hans Wolfgang Spiess, Michael Ryan Hansen
ABSTRACT

To tilt or not to tilt: The crystal structure for bulk P3HT (phase I) was determined by "multi-technique crystallography", which combines X-ray diffraction, solid-state NMR spectroscopy, and DFT calculations. The results showed that this semiconducting polymer crystallizes in the monoclinic space group P2(1)/c with nontilted π-stacks at a distance of 3.9 Å (see picture).

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Poly(thiophene-2,5-diyl), bromine terminated, powder