New fused conjugated molecules with fused thiophene and pyran units for organic electronic materials

Daoliang Chen; Danlei Zhu; Gaobo Lin; Mingxu Du; Dandan Shi; Qian Peng; Lang Jiang; Zitong Liu; Guanxin Zhang; Deqing Zhang

doi:10.1039/D0RA01984D

New fused conjugated molecules with fused thiophene and pyran units for organic electronic materials†

Daoliang Chen,^ab Danlei Zhu,^ab Gaobo Lin,^ab Mingxu Du,^a Dandan Shi,^ab Qian Peng,

^a Lang Jiang,

^a Zitong Liu,

^a Guanxin Zhang^a and Deqing Zhang

*^ab

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^a Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, CAS Center of Excellence of Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China

^b University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P. R. China

Abstract

Rigid and planar conjugated molecules have substantial significance due to their potential applications in organic electronics. Herein we report two highly fused ladder type conjugated molecules, TTCTTC and TTTCTTTC, with up to 10 fused rings in which the fused-thiophene rings are fused to the chromeno[6,5,4-def]chromene unit. Both molecules show high HOMO levels and accordingly they can be oxidized into their radical cations with absorptions extending to 1300 nm in the presence of trifluoroacetic acid. Thin films of TTCTTC and TTTCTTTC exhibit p-type semiconductor properties with hole mobilities up to 0.39 cm² V⁻¹ s⁻¹. Moreover, TTCTTC shows a high fluorescence quantum yield of up to 16.5% in the solid state.

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New fused conjugated molecules with fused thiophene and pyran units for organic electronic materials†

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