Palladium-catalyzeddirect C–H arylations of 4,4-difluoro-4-bora-3a,4a-diaza-s-indacene (BODIPY) with 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene (EDOT) derivatives at relatively low temperature (60 °C) provide moderate to good yields (47%–72%) of products having potential applications in fluorescent bioimaging and organic optoelectronics.
Organic sensitizers incorporating 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene as the conjugated bridge: Joint photophysical and electrochemical analysis of photovoltaic performance
Two novel D-pi-A organic dyes containing either an indoline donor or a triphenylamine donor with each containing the 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene unit as the conjugated bridge, were developed for dye-sensitized solar cells. Incorporating 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene as the conjugated bridge brings several characteristics, such as broadening absorption range and increasing molar extinction coefficients, and improving electron injection with enhancement of the short-circuit photocurrent. The indoline containing dye shows a more negative oxidation potential and a bathochromic shift in absorption spectra than the triphenylamine substituted dye, indicative of the more powerful electron-donating capability of the indoline unit. With coadsorption of chenodeoxycholic acid, the indoline dye based dye-sensitized solar cell exhibited promising conversion efficiency of 6.05%, with a short-circuit photocurrent of 13.23 mA cm(-2), open circuit voltage of 642 my, and a fill factor of 0.711. In the indoline dye system, the dye-sensitized solar cell is workable with the driving force of 150 mV for the dye regeneration process, paving a road toward minimizing energy losses in the dye regeneration process. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.