Issue 44, 2018

Bifuran-imide: a stable furan building unit for organic electronics

Abstract

Oligo- and polyfurans hold many advantages over their thiophene analogues, yet their low environmental stability greatly limits their applications. In this work, we introduce a new building unit, bifuran-imide (BFI), which displays many of the advantageous properties observed for oligofurans, such as strong fluorescence, high solubility, significant quinoid character, and planarity, while also being significantly more stable (both thermally and photochemically) than parent oligofurans. Oligomers and polymers containing BFI show good solid state packing, strong fluorescence, and solubility, which makes them ideal candidates for active materials in organic electronics.

Graphical abstract: Bifuran-imide: a stable furan building unit for organic electronics

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Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
13 jun 2018
Accepted
09 aug 2018
First published
09 aug 2018

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2018,6, 11951-11955

Bifuran-imide: a stable furan building unit for organic electronics

S. V. Mulay, B. Bogoslavky, I. Galanti, E. Galun and O. Gidron, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2018, 6, 11951 DOI: 10.1039/C8TC02908C

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