Recent progress in using pyrene-4,5-diketones and pyrene-4,5,9,10-tetraketones as building blocks to construct large acenes and heteroacenes

• Main Authors: Jin, Pengcheng, Song, Tingting, Xiao, Jinchong, Zhang, Qichun
• Other Authors: School of Materials Science & Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Engineering::Materials; Acenes; Heteroacenes
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/139820
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Acenes, usually defined as segments of “graphene”, consist of linearly annulated benzene rings, and have attracted considerable interest in both theoretical research and practical applications. However, these compounds generally have undesirable features such as poor solubility, easy oxidation and p...