Synthesis and Electronic Behavior of a Networked Manganese-Phenylene-Rhenium Ternary Hybrid Copolymer

Abstract

An alternating manganese-phenylene-rhenium ternary hybrid copolymer was synthesized by initially reacting rhenium chloride with 4-hydroxythiophenol followed by a second reaction with manganese chloride. UV-VIS, ESR, and XPS spectral measurements suggest that an electron transfer takes place from the rhenium atom to the manganese atom via the phenylene group with the partial reduction of the manganese atom.