Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications was published between 1972 - 1995.
Paper
J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1977, 578 - 580, DOI: 10.1039/C39770000578
Synthesis of electrically conducting organic polymers: halogen derivatives of polyacetylene, (CH)x
Hideki Shirakawa, Edwin J. Louis, Alan G. MacDiarmid, Chwan K. Chiang and Alan J. Heeger
When silvery films of the semiconducting polymer, trans
polyacetylene
, (CH)x, are exposed to chlorine, bromine, or iodine vapour, uptake of halogen occurs, and the conductivity increases markedly (over seven orders of magnitude in the case of iodine) to give, depending on the extent of halogenation, silvery or silvery-black films, some of which have a remarkably high conductivity at room temperature.
