B.-G. Lee N.-G. Park J.R. Pugh D. D. Eberl A.J. Frank M.A. Ibrahim 1999 The orientation dependence of intercalated oligothiophene derivatives in vermiculite and metal disulfides MS2 (M = Mo, Ti and Zr) on the pendant group on the thiophene ring and the host material was studied by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and solid state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Amino and nitro derivatives of bi-, ter- and quarter-thiophenes were synthesized for the first time. The amino-oligothiophenes were intercalated into vermiculite by an exchange reaction with previously intercalated octadecylammonium vermiculite and into MS2 by the intercalation-exfoliation technique. Analysis of the XRD data indicates that a monolayer of amino-oligothiophene orients perpendicularly to the silicate surface in vermiculite and lies flat in the van der Waals gap of MS2. application/pdf 10.1016/S0379-6779(99)00037-5 en Elsevier Sequoia SA Synthesis of new oligothiophene derivatives and their intercalation compounds: Orientation effects article