Novel electrically conducting polyurethanes with oligoanilines: Synthesis, conductivity, and electrochemical properties

New class of conducting polyurethanes (CPUs) containing oligoanilines, namely tetraaniline (TAni) or trianiline (TriAni), in the backbone have been synthesized and characterized by formal spectral techniques. The unique properties of these CPUs, viz., electronic conductivity and electrochemical activity arising from the presence of oligoaniline units have been evaluated. The basic polyurethane backbone is derived from toluene diisocyanate, isophorone diisocyanate or hexamethylene diisocyanate, and polypropylene glycols of molecular weight 425 and 2000. In the first category of polyurethanes, the prepolymers obtained from the above reactants were chain terminated by TAni in emeraldine base oxidation state. The conductivity of these CPUs films ranged from 1.2 × 10−5 to 1.77 × 10−3 S cm−1. These polymers showed lower conductivity due to the presence of nonconjugated polyurethane segments. These CPUs exhibited slightly different electrochemical activity than that of TAni. The second category of CPUs is obtained from prepolymers by chain extension with TriAni. The conductivity of these polymers is similar to the TAni analogues but are electrochemically inactive. The anticorrosion properties of two of these polymers have also been evaluated in this study. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 2014, 131, 40794.

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