Gunathilake, Samodha S.Magurudeniya, Harsha D.Huang, PeishenNguyen, HienRainbolt, Elizabeth A.Stefan, Mihaela C.Biewer, Michael C.2014-07-172014-07-172013-02-272013-02-272013-01-251759-9954http://hdl.handle.net/10735.1/3698Contains supplementary material.The acidic methyl protons of 4,6-dimethylpyrimidines can be easily deprotonated with a base to generate a resonance stabilized carbanion which can be used as a substrate for aldol condensation reactions. A series of novel conjugated polymers were synthesized by the aldol condensation reaction of 2-decyloxy-4,6-dimethylpyrimidine with various aromatic dialdehydes.en©2013 The Royal Society of Chemistry. This article may not be further made available or distributed.Conducting polymersPyrimidinesChloroformTextGunathilake, S. S., H. D. Magurudeniya, P. Huang, H. Nguyen, et al. 2013. "Synthesis and characterization of novel semiconducting polymers containing pyrimidine." Polymer Chemistry 4(20): 5216-5219420