Thienothiophenes, dithienothiophenes, and thienoacenes: syntheses, oligomers, polymers, and properties

ME Cinar, T Ozturk - Chemical Reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
Heterocyclic compounds comprising various biochemical materials are an indispensable
member of our life such as nucleic acids. Moreover, many naturally occurring pigments …

Synthesis of conjugated polymers for organic solar cell applications

YJ Cheng, SH Yang, CS Hsu - Chemical reviews, 2009 - ACS Publications
Harvesting energy directly from sunlight using photovoltaic technology is considered as
being one of the most important ways to address growing global energy needs using a …

Fullerene derivative acceptors for high performance polymer solar cells

Y He, Y Li - Physical chemistry chemical physics, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
Polymer solar cells (PSCs) are composed of a blend film of a conjugated polymer donor and
a soluble fullerene derivative acceptor sandwiched between a PEDOT: PSS coated ITO …

Stille polycondensation for synthesis of functional materials

B Carsten, F He, HJ Son, T Xu, L Yu - Chemical reviews, 2011 - ACS Publications
The Stille coupling reaction between stannanes and aryl halides to form new carbonrcarbon
bonds has become a versatile synthetic methodology and has been widely applied to the …

π-Conjugated molecules with fused rings for organic field-effect transistors: design, synthesis and applications

W Wu, Y Liu, D Zhu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
π-Conjugated molecular materials with fused rings are the focus of considerable interest in
the emerging area of organic electronics, since the combination of excellent charge carrier …

Fused-thiophene based materials for organic photovoltaics and dye-sensitized solar cells

P Kumaresan, S Vegiraju, Y Ezhumalai, SL Yau, C Kim… - Polymers, 2014 - mdpi.com
Organic photovoltaics (OPVs) and dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) have drawn great
interest from both academics and industry, due to the possibility of low-cost conversion of …

Influence of side-chain regiochemistry on the transistor performance of high-mobility, all-donor polymers

Z Fei, P Pattanasattayavong, Y Han… - Journal of the …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Three novel polythiophene isomers are reported whereby the only difference in structure
relates to the regiochemistry of the solubilizing side chains on the backbone. This is …

Design of donors with broad absorption regions and suitable frontier molecular orbitals to match typical acceptors via substitution on oligo (thienylenevinylene) toward …

S Tang, J Zhang - Journal of computational chemistry, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
A series of oligo (thienylenevinylene) derivatives with or without thieno [3, 2‐b] thiophene
analogs as cores and three types substituent has been investigated at the PBE0/6‐31G (d) …

Effects of alkylthio and alkoxy side chains in polymer donor materials for organic solar cells

C Cui, WY Wong - Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Side chains play a considerable role not only in improving the solubility of polymers for
solution‐processed device fabrication, but also in affecting the molecular packing, electron …

Reactions of difunctional electrophiles with functionalized aryllithium compounds: remarkable chemoselectivity by flash chemistry

A Nagaki, K Imai, S Ishiuchi… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Flash chemistry using flow microreactors enables highly chemoselective reactions of
difunctional electrophiles with functionalized aryllithium compounds by virtue of extremely …