1 Tokyo Institute of Technology, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Department of Electronic Chemistry, 4259 Nagatsuta, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8502, Japan.
New anthraquinone derivatives were prepared and used as active layers of organic field-effect transistors (OFETs); these devices showed good n-type characteristics and the quinones were found to be useful for organic semiconductors in OFETs.