Graphene attracts tremendous interest as a leading candidate for next generation technologies. However, because of its chemical inertness, the structure and properties cannot be modified in a controlled manner. If one can take advantage of organic chemistry to synthesize such an intriguing 2-D structure by design, it may lead to emergence of a large family of artificial 2-D polymers to meet demands for a broad range of applications. However, how to realize an exclusively lateral, periodic growth of monomers remains a key challenge on the synthesis. In the present study, I applied the following two strategies to tackle this problem. In the first, monomers are preorganized into an ordered array prior to their irreversible covalent fixation (2-D topochemical polymerization  ). In the second, order is created during bond formation by applying reversible reactions for the growth process (2-D equilibrium polymerization  ). The contribution will present the latest situation showing some concrete examples.

Organic chemical synthesis of free-standing 2D network polymers with periodic internal order

246th National Meeting (2013)

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