Lateral Extension of a Benzodithiophene System: Construction of Heteroacenes Containing Various Chalcogens

Jichang Wei; Dong Meng; Lei Zhang; Zhaohui Wang

doi:10.1002/asia.201700552

Lateral Extension of a Benzodithiophene System: Construction of Heteroacenes Containing Various Chalcogens

Chem Asian J. 2017 Aug 4;12(15):1879-1882. doi: 10.1002/asia.201700552. Epub 2017 Jun 19.

Authors

Jichang Wei^{1

2

3}, Dong Meng^{1

3}, Lei Zhang², Zhaohui Wang¹

Affiliations

¹ Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China.
² College of Energy, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, China.
³ University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China.

PMID: 28463431
DOI: 10.1002/asia.201700552

Abstract

A series of linear acenes with five fused rings, which contain thiophene, selenophene, and tellurophene as the outmost rings, have been synthesized from well-known benzodithiophene (BDT). It was found that the optical, electrochemical properties and crystal packing motifs could be modulated by changing heteroatoms in the outmost rings.

Keywords: benzodithiophene; density functional calculations; heteroacenes; heterocycles; linear acene.