129-68-0Relevant articles and documents
Z-Shaped Pentaleno-Acene Dimers with High Stability and Small Band Gap
Dai, Gaole,Chang, Jingjing,Luo, Jie,Dong, Shaoqiang,Aratani, Naoki,Zheng, Bin,Huang, Kuo-Wei,Yamada, Hiroko,Chi, Chunyan
, p. 2693 - 2696 (2016)
Acene-based materials have promising applications for organic electronics but the major constrain comes from their poor stability. Herein a new strategy to stabilize reactive acenes, by fusion of an anti-aromatic pentalene unit onto the zigzag edges of two acene units to form a Z-shaped acene dimer, is introduced. The Z-shaped acene dimers are extremely stable and show a small energy gap resulting from intramolecular donor-acceptor interactions. X-ray crystallographic analysis revealed their unique geometry and one-dimensional slip-stack columnar structure. Besides optical and electrochemical characterizations, solution-processed field-effect transistors were also fabricated.