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Bhosale SV, Al Kobaisi M, Jadhav RW, Morajkar PP, Jones LA, George S. Naphthalene diimides: perspectives and promise. Chem Soc Rev 2021; 50:9845-9998. [PMID: 34308940 DOI: 10.1039/d0cs00239a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 26.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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In this review, we describe the developments in the field of naphthalene diimides (NDIs) from 2016 to the presentday. NDIs are shown to be an increasingly interesting class of molecules due to their electronic properties, large electron deficient aromatic cores and tendency to self-assemble into functional structures. Almost all NDIs possess high electron affinity, good charge carrier mobility, and excellent thermal and oxidative stability, making them promising candidates for applications in organic electronics, photovoltaic devices, and flexible displays. NDIs have also been extensively studied due to their potential real-world uses across a wide variety of applications including supramolecular chemistry, sensing, host-guest complexes for molecular switching devices, such as catenanes and rotaxanes, ion-channels, catalysis, and medicine and as non-fullerene accepters in solar cells. In recent years, NDI research with respect to supramolecular assemblies and mechanoluminescent properties has also gained considerable traction. Thus, this review will assist a wide range of readers and researchers including chemists, physicists, biologists, medicinal chemists and materials scientists in understanding the scope for development and applicability of NDI dyes in their respective fields through a discussion of the main properties of NDI derivatives and of the status of emerging applications.
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- Sheshanath V Bhosale
- School of Chemical Sciences, Goa University, Taleigao Plateau, Goa-403 206, India.
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- Centre for Advanced Materials and Industrial Chemistry (CAMIC), School of Science, RMIT University, GPO Box 2476, Melbourne, Victoria 3001, Australia
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- School of Chemical Sciences, Goa University, Taleigao Plateau, Goa-403 206, India.
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- School of Chemical Sciences, Goa University, Taleigao Plateau, Goa-403 206, India.
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- Centre for Advanced Materials and Industrial Chemistry (CAMIC), School of Science, RMIT University, GPO Box 2476, Melbourne, Victoria 3001, Australia
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- New Chemistry Unit (NCU), Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Jakkur PO, Bangalore-560064, India
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Summers GJ, Mdletshe TS, Summers CA. RAFT polymerization of styrene mediated by naphthyl-functionalized trithiocarbonate RAFT agents. Polym Bull (Berl) 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s00289-019-03011-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Pan YQ, Sun GY. Star-Shaped Non-Fullerene Small Acceptors for Organic Solar Cells. CHEMSUSCHEM 2019; 12:4570-4600. [PMID: 31313523 DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201901013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2019] [Revised: 07/08/2019] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Over the past decade, organic solar cells (OSCs) have received considerable attention from the scientific community and are considered one of the most important sources of low-cost electricity production. Recently, OSC-based on star-shaped small-molecule (SM) non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs) have developed rapidly, and the highest power conversion efficiency (PCE) has exceeded 10 %. The star-shaped SM NFAs not only have three-dimensional charge-transport characteristics similar to fullerenes but also have a strong light absorption capacities and easily tunable energy levels. They are potential candidates as outstanding acceptor materials. In this Review, research progress in of star-shaped SM NFAs OSCs is reviewed specifically. Moreover, the influence of molecular structure, central unit, and peripheral linking group on OSC performance has been evaluated systematically. This Review could stimulate inspiration for designing high-performance OSC acceptor materials in the future.
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- Yi-Qi Pan
- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Yanbian University, Yanji, Jilin, 133002, P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Yanbian University, Yanji, Jilin, 133002, P.R. China
- Faculty of Chemical Engineering and New Energy Materials, Zhuhai College of Jilin University, Zhuhai, Guangdong, 519041, P.R. China
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Han H, Ma LK, Zhang L, Guo Y, Li Y, Yu H, Ma W, Yan H, Zhao D. Tweaking the Molecular Geometry of a Tetraperylenediimide Acceptor. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2019; 11:6970-6977. [PMID: 30668087 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b19065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Partial flattening of the spatially extended molecular scaffold has been employed as an effective tactic to improve the device performance of a perylenediimide (PDI)-based small-molecule acceptor because the less twisted yet not completely planar molecular geometry is anticipated to improve the molecular packing and thereby attain a more suitable balance between the carrier transport ability and phase domain size. A small-molecule acceptor BF-PDI comprising four α-substituted PDI units attached around a 9,9'-bifluorenylidene (BF) central moiety is designed and studied in polymer solar cells. The BF group is deemed a ring-fused analogue of the tetraphenylethylene (TPE) unit. Due to the less twisted and better conjugated BF skeleton, BF-PDI displays more delocalized lowest unoccupied molecular orbital. By virtue of both the electronic and steric effects, BF-PDI is suggested to bring about superior intermolecular stacking and donor-acceptor phase separation morphology in blend films. Indeed, the experimental results show that BF-PDI displays improved charge transport ability and a higher power-conversion efficiency of 8.05% than that of TPE-PDI. Grazing-incidence wide-angle X-ray diffraction and resonant soft X-ray scattering confirm the more compact and ordered molecular packing as well as smaller domain sizes in the P3TEA/BF-PDI blend.
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- Han Han
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Center for the Soft Matter Science and Engineering, The Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of the Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry , Peking University , Beijing 100871 , China
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- Department of Chemistry and Hong Kong Branch of Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Tissue Restoration & Reconstruction , Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) , Clear Water Bay, Kowloon , Hong Kong 999077 , China
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- State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials , Xi'an Jiaotong University , Xi'an 710049 , China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Center for the Soft Matter Science and Engineering, The Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of the Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry , Peking University , Beijing 100871 , China
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- Department of Chemistry and Hong Kong Branch of Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Tissue Restoration & Reconstruction , Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) , Clear Water Bay, Kowloon , Hong Kong 999077 , China
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- Department of Chemistry and Hong Kong Branch of Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Tissue Restoration & Reconstruction , Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) , Clear Water Bay, Kowloon , Hong Kong 999077 , China
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- State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials , Xi'an Jiaotong University , Xi'an 710049 , China
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- Department of Chemistry and Hong Kong Branch of Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Tissue Restoration & Reconstruction , Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) , Clear Water Bay, Kowloon , Hong Kong 999077 , China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Center for the Soft Matter Science and Engineering, The Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of the Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry , Peking University , Beijing 100871 , China
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Yu T, Yang Q, Zhang T, Zhao Y, Wei C, Li Y, Zhang H, Hu D. A 9,9′-bifluorenylidene derivative containing four 1,1-dicyanomethylene-3-indanone end-capped groups as an electron acceptor for organic photovoltaic cells. NEW J CHEM 2019. [DOI: 10.1039/c9nj02604e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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A non-fullerene receptor (BF-TDCI4) was successfully synthesized for organic photovoltaic cells, and the PCE of the device was 4.35%.
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- Tianzhi Yu
- Key Laboratory of Opto-Electronic Technology and Intelligent Control (Ministry of Education)
- Lanzhou Jiaotong University
- Lanzhou 730070
- China
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- Key Laboratory of Opto-Electronic Technology and Intelligent Control (Ministry of Education)
- Lanzhou Jiaotong University
- Lanzhou 730070
- China
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- Key Laboratory of Opto-Electronic Technology and Intelligent Control (Ministry of Education)
- Lanzhou Jiaotong University
- Lanzhou 730070
- China
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- School of Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Lanzhou Jiaotong University
- Lanzhou 730070
- China
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- Key Laboratory of Opto-Electronic Technology and Intelligent Control (Ministry of Education)
- Lanzhou Jiaotong University
- Lanzhou 730070
- China
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- Key Laboratory of Opto-Electronic Technology and Intelligent Control (Ministry of Education)
- Lanzhou Jiaotong University
- Lanzhou 730070
- China
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- Key Laboratory of Opto-Electronic Technology and Intelligent Control (Ministry of Education)
- Lanzhou Jiaotong University
- Lanzhou 730070
- China
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- Organic Semiconductor Research Center
- Chongqing Institute of Green and Intelligent Technology
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Chongqing 400714
- China
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Patil Y, Misra R. Small Molecule Based Non-Fullerene Acceptors: A Comparative Study. CHEM REC 2018; 18:1350-1364. [DOI: 10.1002/tcr.201800037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2018] [Accepted: 05/24/2018] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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- Yuvraj Patil
- Department of Chemistry; Indian Institute of Technology Indore; Indore 453552 India
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- Department of Chemistry; Indian Institute of Technology Indore; Indore 453552 India
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Zhao Y, Wang H, Xia S, Zhou F, Luo Z, Luo J, He F, Yang C. 9,9'-Bifluorenylidene-Core Perylene Diimide Acceptors for As-Cast Non-Fullerene Organic Solar Cells: The Isomeric Effect on Optoelectronic Properties. Chemistry 2018; 24:4149-4156. [PMID: 29336500 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201705480] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2017] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Two different non-fullerene small-molecule acceptors, m-PIB and p-PIB, based on 9,9'-bifluorenylidene (BF) and perylene diimide (PDI) were designed and synthesized. Four β-substituted PDIs were linked to BF in different positions. Based on DFT analysis, derivative p-PIB exhibited reduced intramolecular twisting between the PDI moieties, more delocalized wave function, and sufficiently wider π-electron delocalization than that of m-PIB. The absorption ability of p-PIB was enhanced due to increased intermolecular interactions. By blending p-PIB with poly{4,8-bis[5-(2ethylhexyl)thiophen-2-yl]benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b']dithiophene-co-3-fluorothieno[3,4-b]-thiophene-2-carboxylate} (PTB7-Th), organic solar cells (OSCs) based on p-PIB obtained a maximum power conversion efficiency of 5.95 % without any treatments. Due to the improved and balanced hole and electron mobilities, the short-circuit current and fill factor of OSCs based on PTB7-Th and p-PIB were significantly increased. The AFM and TEM results revealed that the PTB7-Th:p-PIB film had favorable nanoscale phase separation and formed a bicontinuous interpenetrating network.
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- Yuan Zhao
- Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Advanced Organic Chemical Materials, Hubei Key Lab on Organic and Polymeric Optoelectronic Materials, Department of Chemistry, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, P.R. China
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- Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Advanced Organic Chemical Materials, Hubei Key Lab on Organic and Polymeric Optoelectronic Materials, Department of Chemistry, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, P.R. China
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- Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Advanced Organic Chemical Materials, Hubei Key Lab on Organic and Polymeric Optoelectronic Materials, Department of Chemistry, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, P.R. China
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- Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Advanced Organic Chemical Materials, Hubei Key Lab on Organic and Polymeric Optoelectronic Materials, Department of Chemistry, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, P.R. China
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- Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Advanced Organic Chemical Materials, Hubei Key Lab on Organic and Polymeric Optoelectronic Materials, Department of Chemistry, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, P.R. China
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- Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Advanced Organic Chemical Materials, Hubei Key Lab on Organic and Polymeric Optoelectronic Materials, Department of Chemistry, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, P.R. China
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Liu F, Hou T, Xu X, Sun L, Zhou J, Zhao X, Zhang S. Recent Advances in Nonfullerene Acceptors for Organic Solar Cells. Macromol Rapid Commun 2017; 39. [DOI: 10.1002/marc.201700555] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2017] [Revised: 09/24/2017] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Fuchuan Liu
- Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics (KLOFE) & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM); Jiangsu National Synergetic Innovation Center for Advanced Materials (SICAM); Nanjing Tech University (Nanjing Tech); 30 South Puzhu Road Nanjing 211816 P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics (KLOFE) & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM); Jiangsu National Synergetic Innovation Center for Advanced Materials (SICAM); Nanjing Tech University (Nanjing Tech); 30 South Puzhu Road Nanjing 211816 P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics (KLOFE) & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM); Jiangsu National Synergetic Innovation Center for Advanced Materials (SICAM); Nanjing Tech University (Nanjing Tech); 30 South Puzhu Road Nanjing 211816 P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics (KLOFE) & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM); Jiangsu National Synergetic Innovation Center for Advanced Materials (SICAM); Nanjing Tech University (Nanjing Tech); 30 South Puzhu Road Nanjing 211816 P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry; Johns Hopkins University; 3400 North Charles Street Baltimore MD 21218 USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering; Johns Hopkins University; 3400 North Charles Street Baltimore MD 21218 USA
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- Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics (KLOFE) & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM); Jiangsu National Synergetic Innovation Center for Advanced Materials (SICAM); Nanjing Tech University (Nanjing Tech); 30 South Puzhu Road Nanjing 211816 P. R. China
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Li S, Zhang Z, Shi M, Li CZ, Chen H. Molecular electron acceptors for efficient fullerene-free organic solar cells. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2017; 19:3440-3458. [DOI: 10.1039/c6cp07465k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Small molecule electron acceptors pairing with wide bandgap or narrow bandgap electron donors are reviewed and discussed for fullerene-free organic solar cells.
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- Shuixing Li
- MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization
- State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials
- Department of Polymer Science and Engineering
- Zhejiang University
- Hangzhou 310027
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization
- State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials
- Department of Polymer Science and Engineering
- Zhejiang University
- Hangzhou 310027
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization
- State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials
- Department of Polymer Science and Engineering
- Zhejiang University
- Hangzhou 310027
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization
- State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials
- Department of Polymer Science and Engineering
- Zhejiang University
- Hangzhou 310027
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization
- State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials
- Department of Polymer Science and Engineering
- Zhejiang University
- Hangzhou 310027
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Ho MS, Partridge BE, Sun HJ, Sahoo D, Leowanawat P, Peterca M, Graf R, Spiess HW, Zeng X, Ungar G, Heiney PA, Hsu CS, Percec V. Screening Libraries of Semifluorinated Arylene Bisimides to Discover and Predict Thermodynamically Controlled Helical Crystallization. ACS COMBINATORIAL SCIENCE 2016; 18:723-739. [PMID: 27797481 DOI: 10.1021/acscombsci.6b00143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Synthesis, structural, and retrostructural analysis of a library containing 16 self-assembling perylene (PBI), 1,6,7,12-tetrachloroperylene (Cl4PBI), naphthalene (NBI), and pyromellitic (PMBI) bisimides functionalized with environmentally friendly AB3 chiral racemic semifluorinated minidendrons at their imide groups via m = 0, 1, 2, and 3 methylene units is reported. These semifluorinated compounds melt at lower temperatures than homologous hydrogenated compounds, permitting screening of all their thermotropic phases via structural analysis to discover thermodynamically controlled helical crystallization from propeller-like, cogwheel, and tilted molecules as well as lamellar-like structures. Thermodynamically controlled helical crystallization was discovered for propeller-like PBI, Cl4PBI and NBI with m = 0. Unexpectedly, assemblies of twisted Cl4PBIs exhibit higher order than those of planar PBIs. PBI with m = 1, 2, and 3 form a thermodynamically controlled columnar hexagonal 2D lattice of tilted helical columns with intracolumnar order. PBI and Cl4PBI with m = 1 crystallize via a recently discovered helical cogwheel mechanism, while NBI and PMBI with m = 1 form tilted helical columns. PBI, NBI and PMBI with m = 2 generate lamellar-like structures. 3D and 2D assemblies of PBI with m = 1, 2, and 3, NBI with m = 1 and PMBI with m = 2 exhibit 3.4 Å π-π stacking. The library approach applied here and in previous work enabled the discovery of six assemblies which self-organize via thermodynamic control into 3D and 2D periodic arrays, and provides molecular principles to predict the supramolecular structure of electronically active components.
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- Ming-Shou Ho
- Roy & Diana Vagelos Laboratories, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6323, United States
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- Roy & Diana Vagelos Laboratories, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6323, United States
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- Roy & Diana Vagelos Laboratories, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6323, United States
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- Roy & Diana Vagelos Laboratories, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6323, United States
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- Roy & Diana Vagelos Laboratories, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6323, United States
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- Roy & Diana Vagelos Laboratories, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6323, United States
- Department
of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6396, United States
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- Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Department
of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S1 3JD, United Kingdom
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- Department
of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S1 3JD, United Kingdom
- Department
of Physics, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 3110018, China
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- Department
of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6396, United States
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- Department
of Applied Chemistry, National Chiao Tung University, 1001 Ta Hsueh
Road, Hsin-Chu 30049, Taiwan
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- Roy & Diana Vagelos Laboratories, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6323, United States
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