Synthesis of novel semi-squaraine derivatives and application in efficient dye-sensitized solar cells
摘要:
A series of novel semi-squaraine sensitizers with various architectures and anchors have been synthesized and utilized in dye-sensitized solar cells. These dyes combine indole- or carboline-based electron rich units with strongly electron-withdrawing cyanoacetate moieties or other functional anchoring moieties. They were thoroughly characterized as per their structural, optical and electrochemical properties and the behavior of the as prepared solar cells were examined in detail using linear sweep voltammetry, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and DFT calculations. Amongst the herein reported dyes, AKSq1, incorporating a free hydroxyl group directly attached to the squarate ring, exerts the optimum performance in dye-sensitized solar cells, despite the fact that this dye presents the lowest extinction coefficient among the molecules under study. AKSq1 demonstrates power conversion efficiency of 2.63%, about 14% higher than the efficiency obtained with the corresponding reference dye, the commercially available, high-performance, metal-free dye D35, under the same cell fabrication and measuring conditions. This result is attributed to the presence of free squaryl hydroxyl moiety ensuring efficient dye chemisorption and the existence of a lipophilic dodecyl group preventing the aggregation of the squaraine sensitizer onto the semiconductor's surface either by itself, or via increased intercalation of the C12 chain with the chenodeoxycholic acid coadsorbent.
Synthesis of novel semi-squaraine derivatives and application in efficient dye-sensitized solar cells
摘要:
A series of novel semi-squaraine sensitizers with various architectures and anchors have been synthesized and utilized in dye-sensitized solar cells. These dyes combine indole- or carboline-based electron rich units with strongly electron-withdrawing cyanoacetate moieties or other functional anchoring moieties. They were thoroughly characterized as per their structural, optical and electrochemical properties and the behavior of the as prepared solar cells were examined in detail using linear sweep voltammetry, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and DFT calculations. Amongst the herein reported dyes, AKSq1, incorporating a free hydroxyl group directly attached to the squarate ring, exerts the optimum performance in dye-sensitized solar cells, despite the fact that this dye presents the lowest extinction coefficient among the molecules under study. AKSq1 demonstrates power conversion efficiency of 2.63%, about 14% higher than the efficiency obtained with the corresponding reference dye, the commercially available, high-performance, metal-free dye D35, under the same cell fabrication and measuring conditions. This result is attributed to the presence of free squaryl hydroxyl moiety ensuring efficient dye chemisorption and the existence of a lipophilic dodecyl group preventing the aggregation of the squaraine sensitizer onto the semiconductor's surface either by itself, or via increased intercalation of the C12 chain with the chenodeoxycholic acid coadsorbent.
salt is converted by alkali into the anhydronium base (III; R = OMe). The salt (II; R = H) and the base (III; R = OMe) are converted by sufficiently basic nucleophilic reagents into 2-substituted α-carbolines; the salt (II; R = Me) reacts even more readily with basic nucleophilic compounds.
α-Carboline-1-oxide(I)与乙酸酐得到2-乙酰氧基-9-乙酰基-α-咔啉;用硫酸二甲酯得到盐(Ⅱ; R = H)。后者的盐通过碱转化为an鎓碱(III; R = OMe)。盐(Ⅱ; R = H)和碱(Ⅲ; R = OMe)通过足够碱性的亲核试剂转化为2-取代的α-咔啉;盐(II; R = Me)与碱性亲核化合物反应更容易。
A New Route to α-Carbolines Based on 6π-Electrocyclization of Indole-3-alkenyl Oximes
作者:Sophie J. Markey、William Lewis、Christopher J. Moody
DOI:10.1021/ol403191k
日期:2013.12.20
Indoles are converted into alpha-carbolines in four steps by acylation at C-3, Boc-protection, olefination of the resulting 3-indolylaldehydes or ketones to give N-Boc-3-indolyl alkenyl oxime O-methyl ethers, which upon heating to 240 degrees C under microwave irradiation undergo loss of the Boc-group, and 6 pi-electrocyclization to alpha-carbolines, following aromatization by loss of methanol (11 examples, 30-90% yield).
Synthesis of Carbolines by Photostimulated Cyclization of Anilinohalopyridines
作者:Joydev K. Laha、Silvia M. Barolo、Roberto A. Rossi、Gregory D. Cuny
DOI:10.1021/jo200923n
日期:2011.8.5
A general synthetic route to prepare all four carboline regioisomers by photo stimulated cyclization of anilinohalopyridines is described. The methodology affords various substituted carbolines in good to excellent yields. In the case of alpha-carbolines, the S(RN)1 methodology complements previously reported palladium-catalyzed cyclization approaches.