Authors

Gizem Eren

Type

Text

Type

Thesis

Advisor

Goroff, Nancy S | Parker, Kathlyn | Drueckhammer, Dale.

Date

2014-12-01

Keywords

Chemistry

Department

Department of Chemistry.

Language

en_US

Source

This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree.

Identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/11401/77107

Publisher

The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY.

Format

application/pdf

Abstract

Cocrystallization is a method employed to orient diynes to achieve the appropriate parameters for topochemical polymerization. Using this technique, poly(diiododiacetylene) (PIDA) and 4-(Iodobuta-1,3-diyn-1-yl)benzoic acid are crystalized into their polymeric forms. The weak C-I bonds in PIDA have shown to break easily with Lewis bases like pyrrolidine and iodide. With the use of multiple deiodinating agents, PIDA has also shown to absorb the heteroatoms of present reducing agents in the final amorphous carbon product. Using sodium azide as a deiodinating agent, it has been theorized that nitrogen would incorporate into PIDA and produce a precursor to a carbon-nitride material based off of previous experiments. Push-pull diynes are meant to narrow the band gap between a molecule's HOMO and LUMO. Efforts were made to modify the synthesis of the push-pull diyne, 4-(Iodobuta-1,3-diyn-1-yl)benzoic acid. Previous work in the esterification of 4-bromobenzoic acid as well as the Sonogashira coupling reactions on t-butyl 4-bromobonzoate gave unsatisfactory yields. Different halogen moieties as well as different methods of esterification were explored. | 75 pages

Share

COinS
 
 

To view the content in your browser, please download Adobe Reader or, alternately,
you may Download the file to your hard drive.

NOTE: The latest versions of Adobe Reader do not support viewing PDF files within Firefox on Mac OS and if you are using a modern (Intel) Mac, there is no official plugin for viewing PDF files within the browser window.