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Daisuke Goto1,2, Hirotoshi Mori1
1Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Chuo University, Tokyo 112-8551, Japan.
Abstract:
Suppressing the photodegradation of organic electronic materials is crucial for their device applications. This study proposes a method to mitigate the photodegradation. With focus on the molecular design of triphenylamine derivatives commonly used in organic electronics, it was demonstrated that spin distributions of the derivatives would be a good quantum descriptor for predicting the photocyclization resistance to not give carbazole derivatives.
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