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Synfacts 2007(9): 0937-0937  
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-968898
Synthesis of Materials and Unnatural Products
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Fluorescence Quenching Naphthalene Diimide Multimers with Siloxane Cores

Contributor(s): Timothy M. Swager, Ryan M. Moslin
P. Ganesan, B. van Lagen, A. T. M. Marcelis, E. J. R. Sudhölter, H. Zuilhof*
Wageningen University and Dutch Polymer Institute, EindhoVen, The Netherlands
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23 August 2007 (online)

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Significance

The hydrosilylation of a naphthalene diimide (NDI) to form three amorphous electron-accepting compounds with siloxane cores is presented. All three compounds successfully quench emissions from p-type polymers poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) and poly[2-methoxy-5-(3′,7′-dimethyloctyloxy)-p-phenylene vinylene] (MDMO-PPV). The work is an extension of their earlier report featuring a tetrameric NDI system with a tetrahedral tetraphenyl methane core (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 14530).