Catalytic polymerization of aniline and ring-substituted anilines

Abstract

Redox catalytic system Fe3+/H2O2 easily polymerizes aniline , 2-methoxy- and 2-chloro- anilines giving high yields of corresponding polyanilines at temperatures from 0 °C to 20 °C.

Keywords

• Polyanilines
• conjugated polymers
• catalytic polymerization
• Fe2+/Fe3+ based catalytic systems
• aniline
• substituted anilines