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Jing Gao1, Chengyi Xiao, Wei Jiang
1Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100190, China.
Abstract:
A series of nonbay region cyano-substituted tetrachloroperylene diimides with tunable LUMO energy levels from -4.21 to -4.64 eV were developed. The excellent linear correlation between LUMO energy levels and the number of cyano groups indicated that the LUMO energy levels could be lowered effectively and predictably by incorporating cyano groups.
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