Bisindeno-annulated pentacenes with exceptionally high photo-stability and ordered molecular packing: Simple synthesis by a regio-selective Scholl reaction

Arun Naibi Lakshminarayana; Jingjing Chang; Jie Luo; Bin Zheng; Kuo-Wei Huang; Chunyan Chi

doi:10.1039/c4cc09812a

Bisindeno-annulated pentacenes with exceptionally high photo-stability and ordered molecular packing: Simple synthesis by a regio-selective Scholl reaction

Arun Naibi Lakshminarayana, Jingjing Chang, Jie Luo, Bin Zheng, Kuo-Wei Huang, Chunyan Chi

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Bisindeno-annulated pentacenes 3a and 3b were synthesized by a simple regio-selective, FeCl3-mediated Scholl reaction from the corresponding 6,13-diaryl pentacene precursors. The fusion of two indeno-units dramatically changes the electronic properties and chemical reactivity of pentacene and the obtained compounds exhibited exceptionally high photo-stability in the solution, with a half-life time of 11.2 (3a) and 32.0 (3b) days under ambient light and air conditions. Ordered molecular packing with a small π-π stacking distance was observed in the single crystals of 3a and 3b. Our research provides a promising strategy to access stable higher order acenes with controlled molecular order. This journal is

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	3604-3607
Number of pages	4
Journal	Chem. Commun.
Volume	51
Issue number	17
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1039/c4cc09812a
State	Published - 2015

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Acknowledgements: This work was financially supported by a NUS start-up grant (R-143-000-486-133), MOE AcRF grants (R-143-000-510-112 and R-143-000-573-112) and a A*STAR JCO grant (1431AFG100). K.-W. Huang acknowledges financial support from KAUST.

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Bisindeno-annulated pentacenes with exceptionally high photo-stability and ordered molecular packing: Simple synthesis by a regio-selective Scholl reaction

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