摘要:
Novel liquid crystalline (LC) semiconductors were prepared from the copper complex of a fused porphyrin dimer as the electroactive core by attaching to its periphery dodecyl and semifluoroalkyl side chains site-specifically (P P-hetero) and semifluoroalkyl side chains alone (P P-homo). The former and latter formed rectangular columnar and orthorhombic LC mesophases, respectively, where the stacking geometries of the pi-conjugated core are quite different from one another. Although the pi-electronic properties of the core units in P P-hetero and P P-homo in solution are substantially identical to one another, transient photocurrent profiles of their LC states under time-of-flight conditions clearly showed that P P-hetero behaves as an n-type semiconductor, whereas P P-homo, in contrast, behaves as a p-type semiconductor.