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Zhicai Chen1, Jianfeng Li1, Junwei Wang1
1Department Materials Science and Engineering, Guangdong, Provincial Key Laboratory of Functional Oxide Materials and Devices, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), No. 1088, Xueyuan Road, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518055, China.
Abstract:
The development of high-performance n-type polymer semiconductors is powered by the design and synthesis of electron-deficient building blocks with optimized physicochemical properties. By meticulously installing an imide group onto fluorene and its cyanated derivative, we report here two very electron-deficient building blocks, imide-functionalized fluorenone (FOI) and its cyanated derivative (FCNI), both featuring a deep-lying lowest unoccupied molecular orbital energy level down to -4.05 eV and highly coplanar framework, endowing them ideal units for constructing n-type polymers. Thus, a series of polymers are built from them, exhibiting unipolar n-type transport character with a highest electron mobility of 0.11 cm2 V-1 s-1 . Hence, FOI and FCNI offer a remarkable platform for accessing high-performance n-type polymers and the imide functionalization of appropriate (hetero)arenes is a powerful strategy for developing polymers with deep-lying LUMOs for n-type organic electronics.
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