Synthesis and Application of Rylene Imide Dyes as Organic Semiconducting Materials

Jiajing Feng; Wei Jiang; Zhaohui Wang

doi:10.1002/asia.201701424

Synthesis and Application of Rylene Imide Dyes as Organic Semiconducting Materials

Chem Asian J. 2018 Jan 4;13(1):20-30. doi: 10.1002/asia.201701424. Epub 2017 Dec 7.

Authors

Jiajing Feng^{1

2}, Wei Jiang¹, Zhaohui Wang¹

Affiliations

¹ CAS Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular Sciences Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China.
² University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, P. R. China.

PMID: 29143473
DOI: 10.1002/asia.201701424

Abstract

Rylene imide dyes have been among the most promising organic semiconducting materials for several years due to their remarkable optoelectronic properties and high chemical/thermal stability. In the past decades, various excellent rylene imide dyes have been developed for optoelectronic devices, such as organic solar cells (OSCs) and organic field-effect transistors (OFETs). Recently, tremendous progress of perylene diimides (PDIs) and their analogues for use in OSCs has been achieved, which can be attributed to their ease of functionalization. In this review, we will mainly focus on the synthetic strategies toward to latest PDI dyes and higher rylene imide analogues. A variety of compounds synthesized from different building blocks are summarized, and some properties and applications are discussed.

Keywords: cross-coupling; organic electronics; organic semiconductors; perylene diimides; rylene imides.

Publication types

Review