Journal of Zhejiang University SCIENCE
(ISSN 1009-3095, Monthly)

2005   Vol. 6B   No. 8   p.722-724

Photochemical reactions of poly(3-butoxythiophene-2,5-diyl) with chloroform

IMIT Mokhtar^†1,2, YAMAMOTO Takakazu^†2, IMIN Patigul¹

(¹School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830046, China)
(²Chemical Resources Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan)
^†E-mail: mokhtarjan@sohu.com; tyamamot@res.titech.ac.jp
Received May 8, 2005; revision accepted June 28, 2005

Abstract: Photochemical reactions of poly(3-butoxythiophene-2,5-diyl) with chloroform under irradiation with light were studied. The reactions were separately carried out under air, oxygen, and nitrogen. The obtained results showed that this reaction belongs to the pseudo-first-order reaction with a rate constant k_obs of 1.4×10⁻⁵ s⁻¹ at room temperature. The presence or absence of air, oxygen, and nitrogen did not have obvious effects on the reaction rate under irradiation with light.

Key words: Poly(3-butoxythiophene-2,5-diyl), Photochemical reaction, Kinetics
doi:10.1631/jzus.2005.B0722             CLC number: O644.1