Oligoindenopyrenes: A new class of polycyclic aromatics

Article abstract of DOI:10.1021/jo0613939

(Graph Presented) A new class of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons - oligoindenopyrenes - has been synthesized featuring a Pd-catalyzed Suzuki - Heck coupling cascade. The oligoindenopyrenes are robust, highly colored substructures of C₇₀ and have properties that might prove useful in new organic materials or devices. After excitation, the tetraindenopyrene derivative 3d undergoes efficient deactivation (99%) by internal conversion to the ground state. The small fluorescence quantum yield (0.004) is in accordance with the short (0.6 ns) fluorescence decay time.