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Perylenediimide regioisomers with tunable physicochemical and charge-transport properties
Shuixin Zhang1, Wenhao Li1, Yuzhong Chen1
1Laboratory of Molecular Materials and Devices, Department of Materials Science, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Fudan University, 2005, Songhu Road, Shanghai 200438, China. yangwang@fudan.edu.cn.
Abstract:
Two perylenediimide (PDI) regioisomers with the central core substituted at the ortho (Y-αPDI) and bay (Y-βPDI) areas of the PDIs were successfully prepared. The regioisomeric effects on the physicochemical and charge-transport properties were thoroughly investigated. The results unravel that Y-βPDI shows ambipolar transport with higher mobilities compared to its α-counterpart, which is due to its favourable molecular geometry, stronger intermolecular interaction and improved electron-withdrawing ability.
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