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<strong>XII</strong> <strong>Iberian</strong> <strong>Meeting</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Electrochemistry</strong> & <strong>XVI</strong> <strong>Meeting</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Portuguese Electrochemical Society PE 02<br />

Electrochemical and Spectroelectrochemical Study <strong>of</strong><br />

Alkyl-Substituted Heptathienoacenes<br />

C. Capel Ferrón a,b , B. Vercelli b , G. Zotti b ,<br />

Mingqian He c , Weijun Niu c , V. Hernández a , J. T. López Navarrete a<br />

a<br />

Department <strong>of</strong> Physical Chemistry, Málaga University, 29071 Málaga (Spain)<br />

b<br />

Institute for Energetics and Interphases-IENI CNR, C.so Stati Uniti, 4, 35127 Padova (Italy)<br />

c Corning Incorporated, SP-FR-6, Corning, New York 14830<br />

capel@uma.es<br />

Conjugated organic molecules such as pentacene have been widely used as organic<br />

field-effect transistor (OFET) materials. Oligothiophenes with complete ring fusion, are<br />

<strong>of</strong> particular interest due in part to <strong>the</strong>ir fully planar structure which avoids<br />

conformational disorder and more efficient molecular packing than usual<br />

oligothiophenes, <strong>the</strong>y adopt face-to- face packing motifs in contrast to face-to-edge or<br />

herringbone packing commonly found in -linked oligothiophenes.<br />

Here we consider a series a serie <strong>of</strong> capped heptathienoacenes. [1]<br />

S<br />

S<br />

S<br />

S S<br />

2D-7T<br />

S<br />

S<br />

H 3 C S S S CH 3<br />

C 10 H 21 S S S S C 10 H 21<br />

2D M-7T<br />

C 10 H 21 C10 H 21<br />

S<br />

C 10 H 21 S S S C 10 H 21<br />

C 10 H 21 S S S S C 10 H 21<br />

4D-7T<br />

Si<br />

S S S<br />

S S<br />

T IPS-7T-T IPS<br />

S<br />

Si<br />

The occurrence <strong>of</strong> -dimerization in <strong>the</strong>se flat thienoacenes upon oxidation has been<br />

checked with <strong>the</strong> 7T compounds bearing scarcely hindering C 10 H 21 - or CH 3 -moieties.<br />

The spectroelectrochemistry <strong>of</strong> 2D-7T, 2MD-7T and 4D-7T displays a broad band at ca.<br />

700 nm assigned to <strong>the</strong> formation <strong>of</strong> -dimers, however <strong>the</strong> UV-Vis-NIR spectrum <strong>of</strong><br />

TIPS-7T-TIPS upon oxidation at 700 mV exhibits two bands around 575 nm and 1028<br />

nm, typical <strong>of</strong> insolated radical cations. The formation <strong>of</strong> -dimers in this oligomer is<br />

hindered by <strong>the</strong> bulky TIPS groups incorporated in its terminal alpha positions. [2]<br />

References<br />

[1] Mingqian He and Feixia Zhang , JOC, 2007, 72, 442-451.<br />

[2] J. Aragó; M. Viruela; E. Ortí; R. Malavé Osuna; B.Vercelli; G. Zotti; V. Hernández; J. T.<br />

López Navarrete; J. T. Henssler; A. J. Matzger; Y. Suzuki; and Shigehiro Yamaguchi, Chem.<br />

Eur. J., 2010, DOI: 10.1002/chem.200903343<br />

September, 811, 2010. ISEL - Lisbon 93

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