Synthesis and structure of fused α-oligothiophenes with up to seven rings

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作者
Zhang, XN
Côté, AP
Matzger, AJ
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[1] Univ Michigan, Dept Chem, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[2] Univ Michigan, Macromol Sci & Engn Program, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
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10.1021/ja053326m
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O6 [化学];
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0703 ;
摘要
To combine the stability of α-oligothiophenes with the planarity of acenes, fully fused oligothienoacenes were synthesized and their properties compared to the nonfused α-oligothiophenes. By employing removable solubilizing groups, our synthetic methodology made it possible to efficiently prepare and purify oligothienoacenes with up to seven fused rings. The key steps involved the halogen dance reaction and Pd-catalyzed coupling of Bu3SnSSnBu3 to introduce sulfur linkages. This approach eliminates α-β anion equilibration, a significant improvement over the traditional method of introducing sulfur linkages via Li-Br exchange. X-ray diffraction data indicate that pentathienoacene and heptathienoacene adopt π-stacked packing motifs in contrast to the herringbone packing of nonfused oligothiophenes. On the basis of the linear dependence of the longest λmax on the reciprocal number of double bonds of thienoacenes with three to seven rings, the band gap of polythienoacene is extrapolated to be 2.21 eV. Copyright © 2005 American Chemical Society.
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页码:10502 / 10503
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