Issue 40, 2013
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Chemical Communications

Solvent-free phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) from clathrates: insights for organic photovoltaics from crystal structures and molecular dynamics†

Mosè Casalegno,a   Stefano Zanardi,b   Francesco Frigerio,b   Riccardo Po,c   Chiara Carbonera,c   Gianluigi Marra,c   Tommaso Nicolini,a   Guido Raosa  and  Stefano Valdo Meille*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Dipartimento di Chimica, Materiali e Ingegneria Chimica “G. Natta”, Politecnico di Milano, via Mancinelli 7, I-20131 Milano, MI, Italy
E-mail: valdo.meille@polimi.it

b ENI Refining and Marketing, via Maritano 26, I-20097 San Donato Milanese, MI, Italy

c Research Centre for Non-Conventional Energies, ENI Istituto Donegani, Via Fauser 4, I-28100 Novara, NO, Italy

Abstract

The first solvent-free crystal structure of PCBM, an organic semiconductor widely used in solvent-free nanocrystalline films in plastic solar cells, is reported and its relevance to structure–property relationships discussed. The PCBM structure, obtained from o-dichlorobenzene solvates by solvent abstraction, was solved using powder diffraction, demonstrating this possibility for functionalized fullerenes.

Graphical abstract: Solvent-free phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) from clathrates: insights for organic photovoltaics from crystal structures and molecular dynamics

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C3CC40863A
Article type
Communication
Submitted
01 Feb 2013
Accepted
25 Mar 2013
First published
26 Mar 2013

Chem. Commun., 2013,49, 4525-4527

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Solvent-free phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) from clathrates: insights for organic photovoltaics from crystal structures and molecular dynamics

M. Casalegno, S. Zanardi, F. Frigerio, R. Po, C. Carbonera, G. Marra, T. Nicolini, G. Raos and S. V. Meille, Chem. Commun., 2013, 49, 4525 DOI: 10.1039/C3CC40863A

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