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ORGANIC CHEMISTRY FRONTIERS
Volume 7, Issue 16, Pages 2247-2254Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d0qo00602e
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51922039]
- Hunan Provincial NSFC [2018JJ1008]
- Singapore MOE Tier 3 programme [MOE2014-T3-1-004]
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Creating pi-extended benzopentafulvalenes can aid development of novel functional materials for organic electronics. Herein, we describe a facile ring-expansion strategy to allow precise construction of benzopentafulvalenes in an asymmetric benzoannulation mode, which provides an unprecedented opportunity to extend overcrowded olefins. This ring-expansion experienced sequenced skeletal rearrangementviaa crucial spirobicyclic cation intermediate, rationalized by experiments and theoretical calculations. The resulting pi-extended benzopentafulvalenes showed chain length-dependent physical properties. Substituent tuning led to available pi-systems exhibiting LUMO energies comparable with those of fullerenes and stable ionic radicals upon one-electron oxidation/reduction. The pi-extended nonplanar molecules displayed promising air-stable ambipolar semiconducting properties with balanced carrier-transport performances in thin film-fabricated OFETs. Our study provides insights into the fundamental relationships between molecular structures and optoelectronic properties for a new class of asymmetric benzopentafulvalenes.
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