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Colours in Organic Chemistry: Predicting Colours

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Mitch:
One interesting example of taking the conjugation aspect of color to its limits is polyacetylene. Where you have a polymer with (-C=C-)n. The color of such a highly conjugated material is metallic metal! A very odd plastic indeed, I have been fortunate enough to see this polymer.

Donaldson Tan:
wow.. does it exhibit metallic properties?

Mitch:
Yup, the organic chemist won the nobel prize for it, it was relatively recent.

Mitch:
http://www.nobel.se/chemistry/laureates/2000/public.html

Corvettaholic:
Just got finished reading it, neat stuff. So it pretty much boils down a new plastic that can conduct electricity, right? One thing I was fuzzy on, does it ALWAYS conduct, or do you gotta do something special first? So lets say I get my hands on this new polymer, and hook up a battery and lightbulb to it. Will it work as a wire just like a copper wire would?

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