conducting polymers - 2025 Penn Bowl

Question

The development of these materials via iodine doping won Heeger, MacDiarmid (“mack-DUR-mid”), and Shirakawa the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name these materials exemplified by PPV and PEDOT, whose most notable property arises from electron movement in their extended conjugated systems.

ANSWER: conducting polymers [or conductive polymers; prompt on polymers]

[10e] Heeger, MacDiarmid, and Shirakawa produced conductive polymers by doping a version of this compound. This simplest alkyne with formula C2H2 is used in welding torches.

ANSWER: acetylene [accept polyacetylene]

[10m] The first conducting polymers were produced in 1862 when Henry Letheby oxidized this compound in sulfuric acid. Iron is used to reduce nitrobenzene into this precursor of indigo dye in the Bechamp reduction.

ANSWER: aniline [or phenylamine; or aminobenzene; or benzenamine]

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2025 Penn Bowl - BU	11/01/25	Y	4	10.00	75%	25%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - CWRU	11/01/25	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Mainsite (UPenn)	11/01/25	Y	6	11.67	83%	33%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Murray State	11/08/25	Y	2	0.00	0%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Northwestern	10/25/25	Y	4	25.00	100%	75%	75%
2025 Penn Bowl - Online	11/08/25	Y	2	10.00	50%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa	11/01/25	Y	7	11.43	71%	29%	14%
2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford	10/25/25	Y	4	10.00	75%	0%	25%
2025 Penn Bowl - UK	11/01/25	Y	9	14.44	89%	44%	11%
2025 Penn Bowl - UNC	11/01/25	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - WashU	11/01/25	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%

Data


Harvard	RIT	0	10	0	10
Brandeis	I've been running into you in my lead plumbocene what could have benzene	0	0	0	0
MIT B	Brown	0	10	0	10
Pittsburgh	CWRU	0	10	0	10
Ohio State A	Michigan B	0	10	0	10
Michigan A	Ohio State B	0	0	10	10
Columbia B	Columbia A	0	10	10	20
John Jay	JHU B	0	10	0	10
Maryland B	Maryland A	0	10	0	10
JHU A	Mount Sinai	0	10	10	20
NYU A	Maryland C	0	0	0	0
NYU B	Swarthmore	0	10	0	10
Oklahoma	Texas B	0	0	0	0
Central Oklahoma	Texas A	0	0	0	0
Illinois	UChicago A	10	10	10	30
Northwestern A	Purdue A	10	10	10	30
Northwestern B	Purdue B	10	10	10	30
UChicago C	UChicago B	0	10	0	10
Wake Up Paddington A Washington Mystery	New Young Whigs of America	0	0	10	10
rusty shackleford	abg academy	0	10	0	10
#OpenToBuzz	Carleton A	0	0	0	0
Toronto G	Guelph perfomative male competition	0	10	10	20
Aweille Kevin Fan osti continue comme ça	McGill B	0	0	0	0
Toronto E	McGill Fartlets	0	10	10	20
Toronto Operation PBSuccess	Queen's is monitoring the situation	0	10	0	10
Waterloo you are crooked	Toronto Murder on the Rider Express	10	10	0	20
Toronto Sunshine Bubbles	Ottawa 67s	0	10	0	10
Berkeley C	The best time to buzz was twenty clues ago. The second best time to buzz is now	0	10	0	10
Berkeley A	Free Win	0	10	0	10
Stanford A	In Search of Lost Clues	10	0	0	10
Berkeley B	Stanford B	0	10	0	10
Paul Quifford, or, It Was a Dark and Stormy Tournament	1. Wawa 2. Blank Street 151. Black Sheep at Kings Cross rail	0	10	0	10
Alas poor Warwick, I knew him Edinburgh	Bristold	0	10	0	10
Burnaburiash's Lapis Lazuli	Chimp Brisket	0	10	10	20
Hail to the Sheaf	Coughing Baby	10	10	0	20
Washed Scrubs	Knorr Stock Clue	0	10	10	20
Penn and the Art of Tossup-Bonus cycle Maintenance	To buzz is to be perceived	0	10	10	20
The Bit and the Penndulum	Galactic Ombudsmen	0	0	10	10
Of Mice and Penn	question mark	0	10	0	10
why is it called a score clue if nobody scores points on it	Quiztian Bale in Ratman Begins	0	10	0	10
VT A	UNC A	0	10	10	20
Wise Duke	UNC B	0	10	0	10
WashU Kiki	Truman State	0	10	10	20
VJ Edgecombe School of Interior Design - Edwardsville	WashU Bouba	0	10	10	20
MIT A	Yale	0	10	10	20