Modular Synthesis of Imidazolyliden-substituted chinoid Heteroacenes

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Jan Paradies
• Subject Area: Organic Molecular Chemistry - Synthesis and Characterisation
• Term: from 2017 to 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 388855091

In recent years, organic semi conductors emerged from the academic level to industrial applications e.g. in OLEDs, OFETs or organic solar cells. Despite these achievements the demand for material and novel structures is unbroken. This clearly requires the development of novel and modular synthetic approaches to access new structures or to produce the desired amount of material. The project aims at the efficient synthesis of a series of novel quinoid imidazolylidene heteroacenes through the palladium-catalyzed carbon-sulfur or carbon-nitrogen cross coupling and simultaneous cyclization to access sulfur- or nitrogen-containing heterocycles respectively.This modular synthetic approach through catalytic methods allows for the easy modification of the central as well as the peripheral groups, so that a library of these new compounds is readily available. These structures will be investigated as ambipolar semi conductors in OFETs and as novel donor and acceptor materials in organic solar cells. Furthermore, this synthetic approach does not only pave the way to novel quinoid structures but simultaneously provides a new general synthetic access to heteroacenes.

• DFG Programme: Research Grants
• Cooperation Partners: Professorin Dr. Karin Fink; Professor Dr. Klaus Meerholz