The stable radical polymer field has grown rapidly over the past decade, primarily due to the utility of many examples in organic radical batteries.1,2 Although advances have been signficiant, there remains a need for new families of stable radicals to be incorportated into polymer scaffolds in order to take full advantage of their properties. 6-Oxoverdazyl radicals are amongst the most stable classes of organic radicals, and offer unique and tunable (through substituent variation) bipolar redox properties. Our initial work in this area has focused on the incorporation of 6-oxoverdazyl radicals into polymers with phenylmethacrylate backbones. The synthesis and characterization of these polymers and closely related model complexes will be presented.[1] Oyaizu, K.; Nishide, H. Adv. Mater. 2009  , 21, 2339-2344. [2] Janoschka, T.; Hager, M. D.; Schubert, U. S. Adv. Mater. 2012  , 24, 6397-6409.                                                                       

Synthesis and characterization of bipolar redox-active 6-oxoverdazyl polymers

248th National Meeting (2014)

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