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Heptacene and Beyond: The Longest Characterized Acenes
Author(s) -
Zade Sanjio S.,
Bendikov Michael
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200906002
Subject(s) - pentacene , graphene , nanotechnology , carbon nanotube , transistor , organic electronics , materials science , molecular electronics , chemistry , physics , thin film transistor , molecule , organic chemistry , quantum mechanics , layer (electronics) , voltage
The bigger, the better : In the last decade, the development of organic electronics, and particularly of organic field‐effect transistors, carbon nanotubes, and graphene, has spurred efforts to prepare larger acenes. Stable, large acenes have been obtained and fully characterized. Developments in the synthesis of heptacenes, as well as the very recent synthesis of octacene and nonacenes, are highlighted.