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Frontispiece: Incremental Tuning Up of Fluorous Phenazine Acceptors
Author(s) -
Castro Karlee P.,
Clikeman Tyler T.,
DeWeerd Nicholas J.,
Bukovsky Eric V.,
Rippy Kerry C.,
Kuvychko Igor V.,
Hou GaoLei,
Chen YuSheng,
Wang XueBin,
Strauss Steven H.,
Boltalina Olga V.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201504564
Subject(s) - phenazine , electron acceptor , trifluoromethyl , acceptor , molecule , chemistry , electron affinity (data page) , organic electronics , small molecule , stereochemistry , materials science , crystallography , combinatorial chemistry , photochemistry , organic chemistry , physics , biochemistry , alkyl , quantum mechanics , voltage , condensed matter physics , transistor
Organic Semiconductors By decorating phenazine molecules with trifluoromethyl groups, in a simple one‐step high‐temperature reaction, a series of the nine new compounds were prepared, with the compositions ranging from mono‐ to hexatrifluoromethyl derivatives—the X‐ray structures are shown in the front panel of the figure. Projected on the white screen in the back is a graph showing a remarkably linear correlation between the measured gas‐phase electron affinity of trifluoromethylated phenazines and the number of the attached CF 3 groups. This new family of highly tunable azaacene electron acceptors may be of interest for organic electronics, and donor‐acceptor interactions with biomolecules. For more details see the Communication on page 3930 ff., X.‐B. Wang, S. H. Strauss, O. V. Boltalina et al. The authors thank Ms. Audrey Brooks Mantooth for designing the frontispiece.