What About the Five-Membered Ring? Cyclopenta-fused Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons as a Building Block for Functional Materials

Dedicated to Rhett Emmett.

Abstract

There has been recent interest in creating new functional materials based on cyclopenta-fused polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (CP-PAH) that can be integrated into organic electronic devices. These five-membered-ring-containing materials are appealing because the electronic properties that are associated with their nonalternate PAH ring structure are not typically accessible by alternate PAH composed solely of six-membered rings. This paper highlights some recent synthetic advances for new CP-PAH systems and describes work from our lab that we believe has helped advance the methodology to create new CP-PAH-containing small molecules and polymeric materials.

Key words

cyclopenta-fused polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons - cross-coupling - electron acceptors - donor–acceptor copolymer - organic electronic materials

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