Tetrathiafulvalenes, oligoacenenes, and their buckminsterfullerene derivatives: the brick and mortar of organic electronics

M Bendikov, F Wudl, DF Perepichka - Chemical reviews, 2004 - ACS Publications
As follows from their name, the application of electronic materials is based on special
behavior of electrons in such media. For organic (molecular) electronic materials, the …

New concepts in tetrathiafulvalene chemistry

JL Segura, N Martín - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
Tetrathiafulvalene (TTF) and its derivatives were originally prepared as strong electron‐
donor molecules for the development of electrically conducting materials. This Review …

[PDF][PDF] o-Quinodimethanes:  Efficient Intermediates in Organic Synthesis

JL Segura, N Martín - Chemical reviews, 1999 - academia.edu
The elusive intermediate o-quinodimethane (oQDM), also named o-xylylene, has attracted
much attention of both theoretical and synthetic chemists over the past 30 years. As cis …

Fullerenes: three dimensional electron acceptor materials

DM Guldi - Chemical Communications, 2000 - pubs.rsc.org
This feature article highlights the advantages of employing [60] fullerene as a viable electron
accepting building block in novel donor acceptor systems. Different strategies that aim …

Molecular Self‐Assembly at Solid Surfaces

R Otero, JM Gallego, ALV de Parga, N Martín… - Advanced …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Self‐assembly, the process by which objects initially distributed at random arrange into well‐
defined patterns exclusively due to their local mutual interactions without external …

Electronic Communication in Tetrathiafulvalene (TTF)/C60 Systems: Toward Molecular Solar Energy Conversion Materials?

N Martin, L Sánchez, MA Herranz… - Accounts of chemical …, 2007 - ACS Publications
The covalent connection of the electron acceptor C60 to p-quinonoid π-extended
tetrathiafulvalenes (exTTFs) has allowed for the preparation of new photo-and electroactive …

Efficient electron transfer and sensitizer regeneration in stable π-extended tetrathiafulvalene-sensitized solar cells

S Wenger, PA Bouit, Q Chen, J Teuscher… - Journal of the …, 2010 - ACS Publications
The development of metal-free organic sensitizers is a key issue in dye-sensitized solar cell
research. We report successful photovoltaic conversion with a new class of stable …

π-Extended TTF: a versatile molecule for organic electronics

FG Brunetti, JL López, C Atienza… - Journal of Materials …, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
In this review article, we present the features and properties of 9, 10-di (1, 3-dithiol-2-
ylidene)-9, 10-dihydroanthracene (exTTF) in molecular electronics. Due to its strong donor …

Highly functionalized tetrathiafulvalenes: riding along the synthetic trail from electrophilic alkynes

A Gorgues, P Hudhomme, M Sallé - Chemical reviews, 2004 - ACS Publications
1.1. Background Since the famous work by Wudl et al. on tetrathiafulvalene (TTF), 1 long
after dibenzoTTF was first reported, 2 interest in this exceptional π-donor in the field of …

The butterfly effect in bisfluorenylidene-based dihydroacenes: aggregation induced emission and spin switching

X Yin, JZ Low, KJ Fallon, DW Paley, LM Campos - Chemical science, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Linear acenes are a well-studied class of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and their
established physical properties have led to their widespread application across the field of …