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Published on: November 7, 2016
A new type of soluble pentacene precursor for organic thin-film transistors
Kew-Yu Chen1, Hsing-Hung Hsieh, Chung-Chih Wu
1Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan. kychen@chem.sinica.edu.tw
Abstract:
A new type of soluble pentacene precursor is synthesized, which extrudes a unit of CO upon heating at 150 degrees C, to produce pentacene in nearly quantitative yield.
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