Facile Synthesis of 3-Alkoxy-4-cyanothiophenes As New Building Blocks for Donor−Acceptor Conjugated Systems
摘要:
3-Alkoxy-4-cyanothiophenes are efficiently synthesized in two steps from the readily available 4-cyano-3-oxotetrahydrothiophene. Regioisomers of bithiophene derivatives are easily synthesized by playing on the strong electronic dissymmetry of the thiophene ring induced by the alkoxy and cyano groups.
A symmetrical donorâacceptorâdonor DâAâD system built by connecting two dithienopyrrole donor blocks to a central electron acceptor obtained by dimerization of 3-alkoxy-4-cyano-thiophene has been synthesized and characterized. The compound combines a high photoluminescence efficiency with a broad absorption spectrum in the solid state and a band gap of 1.70 eV. A preliminary evaluation of the potentialities of this type of compound as donor material in bulk heterojunction solar cells using PC61BM as electron acceptor is presented.