Issue 8, 2016

Dithieno[2,3-d;2′,3′-d]benzo[2,1-b;3,4-b‘]dithiophene: a novel building-block for a planar copolymer

Abstract

A planar heteroacene building block, dithieno[2,3-d;2′,3′-d′]benzo[1,2-b;3,4-b′]dithiophene (DTmBDT), is reported via a facile synthetic procedure. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction of Br2-DTmBDT reveals that dodecyl chains interdigitate, still enabling close π-stacking of 3.42 Å. A very high molecular weight quasi-planar copolymer PDTmBDT-DPP exhibited a high hole mobility of 0.36 cm2 V−1 s−1 in preliminary studies of organic field-effect transistors.

Graphical abstract: Dithieno[2,3-d;2′,3′-d]benzo[2,1-b;3,4-b‘]dithiophene: a novel building-block for a planar copolymer

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
05 ינו 2016
Accepted
26 ינו 2016
First published
26 ינו 2016
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Polym. Chem., 2016,7, 1545-1548

Dithieno[2,3-d;2′,3′-d]benzo[2,1-b;3,4-b‘]dithiophene: a novel building-block for a planar copolymer

A. Keerthi, C. An, M. Li, T. Marszalek, A. G. Ricciardulli, B. Radha, F. D. Alsewailem, K. Müllen and M. Baumgarten, Polym. Chem., 2016, 7, 1545 DOI: 10.1039/C6PY00023A

This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. You can use material from this article in other publications without requesting further permissions from the RSC, provided that the correct acknowledgement is given.

Read more about how to correctly acknowledge RSC content.

Social activity

Spotlight

Advertisements