Issue 45, 2015

Pyrimido[4,5-g]quinazoline-4,9-dione as a new building block for constructing polymer semiconductors with high sensitivity to acids and hole transport performance in organic thin film transistors

Abstract

Pyrimido[4,5-g]quinazoline-4,9-dione (PQ) was used for the first time as a building block for π-conjugated polymer semiconductors. Copolymers of PQ and bithiophene showed dramatic bathochromic shifts in their absorption spectra in the presence of protonic (acetic acid and trifluoroacetic acid) and Lewis (BBr3) acids, resulting from the strong interaction of the basic 1,6-nitrogen atoms in the PQ unit with the acid. These polymers exhibited characteristic p-type semiconductor performance with hole mobilities of up to 6.4 × 10−3 cm2 V−1 s−1 in organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs). The potential bioactivity, high sensitivity to acids, and good field effect transistor performance of these PQ-based polymers will enable their application for bio- and chemo-sensors.

Graphical abstract: Pyrimido[4,5-g]quinazoline-4,9-dione as a new building block for constructing polymer semiconductors with high sensitivity to acids and hole transport performance in organic thin film transistors

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
08 Aug 2015
Accepted
24 Oct 2015
First published
26 Oct 2015

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2015,3, 11937-11944

Author version available

Pyrimido[4,5-g]quinazoline-4,9-dione as a new building block for constructing polymer semiconductors with high sensitivity to acids and hole transport performance in organic thin film transistors

J. Quinn, C. Guo, B. Sun, A. Chan, Y. He, E. Jin and Y. Li, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2015, 3, 11937 DOI: 10.1039/C5TC02472B

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