Issue 3, 2023

Homoconjugation effects in triptycene based organic optoelectronic materials

Abstract

Molecular size and shape have a commanding influence on the electronic structure and photophysical properties of organic optoelectronic molecules. Small changes in, for example, the dihedral angles between two rings in a molecule can be used to fine tune frontier orbital distributions, and make the difference between efficient or poor absorbance, luminescence, charge transport etc. as well as impacting on mechanical and thermal properties to improve processability. Recent works have made it clear that structural changes which enforce homoconjugation, the through-space overlap of frontier π-orbitals across a shared non-conjugating group, can exert even more dramatic changes on these useful functional properties. Triptycene is an archetypical homoconjugated molecule with a rigid 3D structure which presents an ideal substrate from which to learn how best to employ homoconjugation to optimise functional molecular properties. This review demonstrates this by highlighting triptycene-based molecules in the context of organic electronic materials, where homoconjugation has resulted in markedly enhanced optoelectronic properties, and provides comment on the performance and future potential of these materials in devices where possible.

Graphical abstract: Homoconjugation effects in triptycene based organic optoelectronic materials

Article information

Article type
Review Article
Submitted
10 May 2022
Accepted
04 Jan 2023
First published
12 Jan 2023
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Mater. Adv., 2023,4, 787-803

Homoconjugation effects in triptycene based organic optoelectronic materials

J. Mistry, S. Montanaro and I. A. Wright, Mater. Adv., 2023, 4, 787 DOI: 10.1039/D2MA00523A

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