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Olga D Parashchuk1, Liya A Poletavkina2, Mikhail V Vener3
1Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory 1/2, Moscow 119991, Russia.
Abstract:
Low-frequency (LF, ν ≤ 200 cm-1) vibrational modes of crystalline organic semiconductors are of particular interest because they significantly affect charge transport in these materials. Herein, we study LF vibrations of [1]benzothieno[3,2-b][1]benzothiophene (BTBT) substituted by phenyls, (per)fluorophenyls or pyridyls using the synergy of Raman spectroscopy and (periodic) DFT calculations. The LF spectra for the compounds with electron-withdrawing (fluorine or nitrogen) atoms differ significantly in the band positions and intensities from those for diphenyl-substituted BTBT, whereas the high-frequency (HF, ν > 200 cm-1) spectra are quite similar for all the compounds studied, excluding the perfluorophenyl-substituted BTBT. We found that Ph-BTBT-Ph counterparts containing one electron-withdrawing atom per aryl ring show significantly lower LF Raman intensity compared to the parent compound. The LF intensity decrease is attributed to the suppression of intermolecular motions by the stronger electrostatic interactions. The unexpected LF intensity increase for the perfluorophenyl-substituted BTBT can be ascribed to strong dynamic disorder induced by easier torsion of phenyls with respect to the BTBT core, which also results in the deterioration of the π-conjugation revealed in the HF Raman spectra. We anticipate that the established structure-property relationships will contribute to the rational design of crystalline organic semiconductors towards controlled dynamic disorder and high charge mobility.
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