Small Molecules of Cyclopentadithiophene Derivatives: Effect of Sulfur Atom Position and Substituted Groups on Their UV鈥揂bs Properties

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• 作者：Jianwu Shi ; Wenling Zhao ; Li Xu ; Yuhe Kan ; Chunli Li ; Jinsheng Song ; Hua Wang
• 刊名：Journal of Physical Chemistry C
• 出版年：2014
• 出版时间：April 17, 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：118
• 期：15
• 页码：7844-7855
• 全文大小：563K
• 年卷期：v.118,no.15(April 17, 2014)
• ISSN：1932-7455

文摘

Thiophene-based organic semiconductors used as the active components have received much attention. Their photoelectric properties can be easily tuned with various substitutions at different positions on molecular structures. Here, we synthesized series cyclopentadithiophene (CDT) derivatives with sulfur atoms at ortho- (o-CDT), meta- (m-CDT), and para-positions (p-CDT) of the bridge carbon. These CDT derivatives were substituted by carbonyl/dicyanomethylene at the bridge position and/or by phenyl groups at the 伪 position, respectively. Due to the different conjugation extent and the variation of donor鈥揳cceptor (D鈥揂) interaction originating from the change of sulfur atom position, diverse absorption spectra were observed. Especially for dicyanomethylene substituted o-CDT with phenyl as substitution group (DPCN-o-CDT), its absorption spectrum covers the whole region of visible light. Combining with the electrochemical behaviors and theoretical calculations, it was found that the sulfur atoms mainly contribute to the molecular conjugation in these CDT derivatives, especially for o-CDT derivatives. For phenyl groups, they primarily act as electron donor in m-CDT derivatives, and chiefly contribute to molecular conjugation in p-CDT derivatives, and simultaneously work as electron donor and conjugation component in o-CDT derivatives, respectively.