A new type of soluble pentacene precursor is synthesized, which extrudes a unit of CO upon heating at 150 °C, to produce pentacene in nearly quantitative yield.
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A new type of soluble pentacene precursor for organic thin-film transistors
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Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan
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Department of Electrical Engineering and Graduate Institute of Electronic Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan
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AU Optronic Corporation, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan
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Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taipei 115, Taiwan
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Chem. Commun., 2007, 1065-1067
DOI: 10.1039/B616511G
Received 13 Nov 2006, Accepted 28 Nov 2006
First published online 14 Dec 2006
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