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Zeng CY, Deng WJ, Zhao KQ, Redshaw C, Donnio B. Phenanthrothiophene-Triazine Star-Shaped Discotic Liquid Crystals: Synthesis, Self-Assembly, and Stimuli-Responsive Fluorescence Properties. Chemistry 2024; 30:e202400296. [PMID: 38427538 DOI: 10.1002/chem.202400296] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2024] [Revised: 03/01/2024] [Accepted: 03/01/2024] [Indexed: 03/03/2024]
Abstract
Lipophilic biphenylthiophene- and phenanthrothiophene-triazine compounds, BPTTn and CPTTn, respectively, were prepared by a tandem procedure involving successive Suzuki-Miyaura coupling and Scholl cyclodehydrogenation reactions. These compounds display photoluminescence in solution and in thin film state, solvatochromism with increasing solvent's polarity, as well as acidochromism and metal ion recognition stimuli-responsive fluorescence. Protonation of BPTT10 and CPTT10 by trifluoroacetic acid results in fluorescence quenching, which is reversibly restored once treated with triethylamine (ON-OFF switch). DFT computational studies show that intramolecular charge transfer (ICT) phenomena occurs for both molecules, and reveal that protonation enhances the electron-withdrawing ability of the triazine core and reduces the band gap. This acidochromic behavior was applied to a prototype fluorescent anti-counterfeiting device. They also specifically recognize Fe3+ through coordination, and the recognition mechanism is closely related to the photoinduced electron transfer between Fe3+ and BPTT10/CPTT10. CPTTn self-assemble into columnar rectangular (Colrec) mesophase, which can be modulated by oleic acid via the formation of a hydrogen-bonded supramolecular liquid crystal hexagonal Colhex mesophase. Finally, CPTTn also form organic gels in alkanes at low critical gel concentration (3.0 mg/mL). Therefore, these star-shaped triazine molecules possess many interesting features and thus hold great promises for information processing, liquid crystal semiconductors and organogelators.
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- Chong-Yang Zeng
- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Sichuan Normal University, 610066, Chengdu, China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Sichuan Normal University, 610066, Chengdu, China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Sichuan Normal University, 610066, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Hull, School of Natural Sciences, Hull, HU6 7RX, UK
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- Institut de Chimie et Physique des Matériaux de Strasbourg, UMR 7504, CNRS-University of Strasbourg, 67034, Strasbourg, France
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Zeng Q, Liu S, Lin H, Zhao KX, Bai XY, Zhao KQ, Hu P, Wang BQ, Donnio B. Pyrene-Fused Poly-Aromatic Regioisomers: Synthesis, Columnar Mesomorphism, and Optical Properties. Molecules 2023; 28:molecules28041721. [PMID: 36838709 PMCID: PMC9959431 DOI: 10.3390/molecules28041721] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2022] [Revised: 02/03/2023] [Accepted: 02/07/2023] [Indexed: 02/16/2023] Open
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π-Extended pyrene compounds possess remarkable luminescent and semiconducting properties and are being intensively investigated as electroluminescent materials for potential uses in organic light-emitting diodes, transistors, and solar cells. Here, the synthesis of two sets of pyrene-containing π-conjugated polyaromatic regioisomers, namely 2,3,10,11,14,15,20,21-octaalkyloxypentabenzo[a,c,m,o,rst]pentaphene (BBPn) and 2,3,6,7,13,14,17,18-octaalkyloxydibenzo[j,tuv]phenanthro [9,10-b]picene (DBPn), is reported. They were obtained using the Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling in tandem with Scholl oxidative cyclodehydrogenation reactions from the easily accessible precursors 1,8- and 1,6-dibromopyrene, respectively. Both sets of compounds, equipped with eight peripheral aliphatic chains, self-assemble into a single hexagonal columnar mesophase, with one short-chain BBPn homolog also exhibiting another columnar mesophase at a lower temperature, with a rectangular symmetry; BBPn isomers also possess wider mesophase ranges and higher mesophases' stability than their DBPn homologs. These polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons all show a strong tendency of face-on orientation on the substrate and could be controlled to edge-on alignment through mechanical shearing of interest for their implementation in photoelectronic devices. In addition, both series BBPn and DBPn display green-yellow luminescence, with high fluorescence quantum yields, around 30%. In particular, BBPn exhibit a blue shift phenomenon in both absorption and emission with respect to their DBPn isomers. DFT results were in good agreement with the optical properties and with the stability ranges of the mesophases by confirming the higher divergence from the flatness of DBPn compared with BBPn. Based on these interesting properties, these isomers could be potentially applied not only in the field of fluorescent dyes but also in the field of organic photoelectric semiconductor materials as electron transport materials.
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- Qing Zeng
- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu 610066, China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu 610066, China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu 610066, China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu 610066, China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu 610066, China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu 610066, China
- Correspondence: (K.-Q.Z.); (B.D.)
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu 610066, China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu 610066, China
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- Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg (IPCMS), CNRS-Université de Strasbourg (UMR 7504), 67034 Strasbourg, France
- Correspondence: (K.-Q.Z.); (B.D.)
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Ali R, Siddiqui R. Dithieno[3,2- b:2',3'- d]thiophene (DTT): an emerging heterocyclic building block for future organic electronic materials & functional supramolecular chemistry. RSC Adv 2022; 12:36073-36102. [PMID: 36545080 PMCID: PMC9756821 DOI: 10.1039/d2ra05768a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2022] [Accepted: 12/08/2022] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Heterocyclic compounds being potent biochemical materials are ubiquitous molecules in our life. Amongst, the five membered aromatic ring systems, thiophene has emerged as a remarkable entity in organic electronics owing to its (i) high resonance energy, (ii) more electrophilic reactivity than benzene, (iii) high π-electron density, (iv) planar structure and, (v) presence of vacant d-orbital in addition to the presence of loosely bind lone-pairs of electrons on sulfur atoms. In recent past, thiophene-fused molecule namely, dithienothiophene (DTT) has attracted a tremendous attention of the researchers worldwide due to their potential applicability in organic electronics such as in solar cells, electrochromic devices (ECDs), organic field effect transistors (OFETs), organic limiting diodes (OLEDs), fluorescent probes, redox switching and so forth because of their (i) higher charge mobility, (ii) extended π-conjugation, and (iii) better tuning of band gaps, etc. In this particular review article, we envisioned to report the recent advancements made on the DTT-based architectures not only because of the potential applicability of this valuable scaffold in organic electronic but also to motivate the young researchers worldwide to look for the challenging opportunities related to this privileged building block in both material sciences and functional supramolecular chemistry.
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- Rashid Ali
- Department of Chemistry, Jamia Millia IslamiaJamia Nagar, OkhlaNew Delhi-110025India+91-7011867613
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- Department of Chemistry, Jamia Millia IslamiaJamia Nagar, OkhlaNew Delhi-110025India+91-7011867613
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Deng WJ, Liu S, Lin H, Zhao KX, Bai XY, Zhao KQ, Hu P, Wang BQ, Monobe H, Donnio B. Ditriphenylenothiophene butterfly-shape liquid crystals. The influence of polyarene core topology on self-organization, fluorescence and photoconductivity. NEW J CHEM 2022. [DOI: 10.1039/d2nj00655c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Two series of regio-isomeric mesomorphous, luminescent and conductive compounds, based on a ditriphenylenothiophene core (α/β-DTPT), were successfully synthesized by the Suzuki–Miyaura cross-coupling/Scholl cyclo-dehydrogenation reactions tandem.
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- Wen-Jing Deng
- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, 610066, China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, 610066, China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, 610066, China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, 610066, China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, 610066, China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, 610066, China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, 610066, China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, 610066, China
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- Nanomaterials Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Ikeda, Osaka, 5638577, Japan
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- Institut de Physique et Chimie des Materiaux de Strasbourg (IPCMS), CNRS-Université de Strasbourg (UMR 7504), Strasbourg, 67034, France
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Ma T, Zhong YJ, Wang HF, Zhao KQ, Wang BQ, Hu P, Monobe H, Donnio B. Butterfly-like Shape Liquid Crystals Based Fused-Thiophene as Unidimensional Ambipolar Organic Semiconductors with High Mobility. Chem Asian J 2021; 16:1106-1117. [PMID: 33704900 DOI: 10.1002/asia.202100173] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2021] [Revised: 03/09/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Mesomorphous butterfly-like shape molecules based on benzodithiophene, benzodithiophene-4,8-dione and cyclopentadithiophen-4-one core moieties were efficiently synthesized by the Suzuki-Miyaura coupling and Scholl oxidative cyclo-dehydrogenation reactions' tandem. Most of the butterfly molecules spontaneously self-organize into columnar hexagonal mesophase. The electron-deficient systems possess strong solvent-gelling ability but are not luminescent, whereas the electron-rich terms do not form gels but strongly emit light between 400 and 600 nm. The charge carrier mobility was also measured by time-of-flight transient photocurrent technique in the mesophases for some of the compounds. They display hole-transport performances with positive charge mobility in the 10-3 cm-2 V-1 s-1 range, consistent with the high degree of ordering and stability of the columnar superstructures. In particular, the mesogen with a benzodithiophen-4,8-dione core shows ambipolar charge carrier transport with both high electron (μe =6.6×10-3 cm-2 V-1 s-1 ) and hole (μh =4.5×10-3 cm-2 V-1 s-1 ) mobility values.
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- Tao Ma
- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, 610066, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, 610066, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, 610066, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, 610066, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, 610066, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, 610066, P. R. China
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- Nanomaterials Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Ikeda, Osaka, 563-8577, Japan
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- Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg (IPCMS), CNRS-Université de Strasbourg (UMR 7504), 67034, Strasbourg, France
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Hang J, Lin H, Zhao K, Hu P, Wang B, Monobe H, Zhu C, Donnio B. Butterfly Mesogens Based on Carbazole, Fluorene or Fluorenone: Mesomorphous, Gelling, Photophysical, and Photoconductive Properties. European J Org Chem 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.202100108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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- Jun‐Fang Hang
- College of Chemistry and Materials Science Sichuan Normal University Chengdu 610066 China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science Sichuan Normal University Chengdu 610066 China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science Sichuan Normal University Chengdu 610066 China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science Sichuan Normal University Chengdu 610066 China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science Sichuan Normal University Chengdu 610066 China
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- Nanomaterials Research Institute National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) Ikeda Osaka 5638577 Japan
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- Department Advanced Light Source Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 1 Cyclotron Rd., M/S 15R0217 Berkeley CA 94720 USA
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- Institut de Physique et Chimie des Materiaux de Strasbourg (IPCMS) CNRS-Universite de Strasbourg (UMR 7504) Strasbourg 67034 France
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Zhu XM, Bai XY, Wang HF, Hu P, Wang BQ, Zhao KQ. Benzo[g]chrysene Discotic Liquid Crystals: Synthesis, Columnar Mesophase and Photophysical Properties. ACTA CHIMICA SINICA 2021. [DOI: 10.6023/a21080397] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Batsyts S, Shehedyn M, Goreshnik EA, Obushak MD, Schmidt A, Ostapiuk YV. 2‐Bromo‐2‐chloro‐3‐arylpropanenitriles as C‐3 Synthons for the Synthesis of Functionalized 3‐Aminothiophenes. European J Org Chem 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.201901512] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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- Sviatoslav Batsyts
- Department of Organic Chemistry Ivan Franko National University of Lviv Kyryla i Mefodiya Str. 6 79005 Lviv Ukraine
- Institute of Organic Chemistry Clausthal University of Technology Leibnizstrasse 6 38678 Clausthal‐Zellerfeld Germany
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- Department of Organic Chemistry Ivan Franko National University of Lviv Kyryla i Mefodiya Str. 6 79005 Lviv Ukraine
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- Department of Inorganic Chemistry and Technology Jozef Stefan Institute Jamova 39 1000 Ljubljana Slovenia
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- Department of Organic Chemistry Ivan Franko National University of Lviv Kyryla i Mefodiya Str. 6 79005 Lviv Ukraine
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry Clausthal University of Technology Leibnizstrasse 6 38678 Clausthal‐Zellerfeld Germany
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- Department of Organic Chemistry Ivan Franko National University of Lviv Kyryla i Mefodiya Str. 6 79005 Lviv Ukraine
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