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Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 781879, 7 pages
doi:10.5402/2012/781879
Research Article

A Novel Poly{(2,5-diyl furan) (benzylidene)}: A New Synthetic Approach and Electronic Properties

Abdelkader Belmokhtar,1 Ahmed Yahiaoui,1 Aïcha Hachemaoui,1 Benyoucef Abdelghani,1 Nabahat Sahli,2 and Mohammed Belbachir2

1Laboratoire de Chimie Organique, Macromoléculaire et des Matériaux (LCOMM), Faculté des Sciences et de la Technologie, Université de Mascara, P.O. Box 763, Mascara 29000, Algeria
2Laboratoire de Chimie des Polymères, Faculté des Sciences, Université d'Oran, P.O. Box 1524, El-Menouer 31000, Algeria

Received 6 September 2011; Accepted 28 September 2011

Academic Editors: J. M. Farrar, J. G. Han, and L. Vattuone

Copyright © 2012 Abdelkader Belmokhtar et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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