Functional materials are wide-spread in applications but especially semiconducting moieties offer themselves as relevant in energy transporting issues in such materials. Of special interest are polymers allowing functionality on demand like interactions with light. Therefore, light absorbing and emitting properties have to be implemented into the various copolymer structures. For this, a very versatile approach is the use of metals i.e. by means of organometallic species like transition metal-complexes. Introducing metal-complexes, triplet emitters on the basis of iridium(III) and platinum(II) complexes have proven very useful when applied in light-emitting diodes for energy saving lighting applications.Different synthetic design concepts to introduce semiconductor metallic species are shown ranging from blending to copolymerizing. Selected examples on successful synthetic designs for the target metal-containing polymers, which are i.e. based on Pd(II) and Ni(0) catalyzed C-C coupling reactions, are furthermore explained. Moreover, relevant details for lighting applications will be discussed.

Metal-containing functional materials for energy-relevant applications

244th National Meeting (2012)

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