Facile Approach to Perylenemonoimide with Short Side Chains for Nonfullerene Solar Cells
Yu Hu1, Shixiao Chen1, Lifu Zhang1
1College of Chemistry and ‡Jiangxi Provincial Key Laboratory of New Energy Chemistry/Institute of Polymers, Nanchang University , 999 Xuefu Avenue, Nanchang 330031, China.
Abstract:
Electron acceptors based on perylene monoimide (PMI) are rare due to the synthetic challenge. Herein, starting from commercially available perylene dianhydride, brominated perylene monoimide (PMI-Br) with short side chains and good solubility was efficiently synthesized in a high overall yield of 71%. With PMI-Br as the intermediate, acceptor-donor-acceptor type electron acceptors with low-lying LUMO energy levels and strong visible absorption were successfully obtained. The nonfullerene bulk heterojunction solar cells based on these acceptors were fabricated with the highest PCE of 1.3%.
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