Journal
BULLETIN OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN
Volume 88, Issue 10, Pages 1357-1377Publisher
CHEMICAL SOC JAPAN
DOI: 10.1246/bcsj.20150151
Keywords
-
Categories
Funding
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology, Japan
- SORST
- PRESTO
- CREST from Japan Science and Technology Agency
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [26288093] Funding Source: KAKEN
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Boron, a group 13 element, has several characteristic structural and electronic features: 1) trivalent boron compounds usually adopt a trigonal planar geometry; 2) due to the presence of a vacant p-orbital, effective orbital interaction with pi-conjugated compounds is possible; 3) the presence of a vacant p-orbital is furthermore responsible for high Lewis acidity; 4) the boryl group acts as a pi-electron-accepting group particularly in the excited state. The consequent exploitation of these characteristic features of boron in the molecular design enables us to produce sophisticated pi-functional materials with attractive photophysical and electronic properties. This account article illustrates our systematic studies on the molecular design and the development of functional pi-electron materials using boron as a key element.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available