Diels−Alder “Click Chemistry” for Highly Efficient Electrooptic Polymers

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Macromolecules 2006, 39, 1676-1680

Diels-Alder “Click Chemistry” for Highly Efficient Electrooptic Polymers Tae-Dong Kim,† Jingdong Luo,† Yanqing Tian,† Jae-Won Ka,† Neil M. Tucker,‡ Marnie Haller,† Jae-Wook Kang,† and Alex K.-Y. Jen*,†,‡ Department of Materials Science & Engineering and Department of Chemistry, UniVersity of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195 ReceiVed September 26, 2005 ReVised Manuscript ReceiVed January 19, 2006 Organic second-order nonlinear optical (NLO) materials have been intensively studied in the past decade for their potential application in high-speed electrooptic (E-O) devices with very broad bandwidth (up to 200 GHz) and low driving voltages (