Influence of Backbone Fluorination in Regioregular Poly(3-alkyl-4-fluoro)thiophenes.

We report two strategies toward the synthesis of 3-alkyl-4-fluorothiophenes containing straight (hexyl and octyl) and branched (2-ethylhexyl) alkyl groups. We demonstrate that treatment of the dibrominated monomer with 1 equiv of alkyl Grignard reagent leads to the formation of a single regioisomer...

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Publicado en:Journal of the American Chemical Society Vol. 137; no. 21; pp. 6866 - 6880
Autores principales: Zhuping Fei, Boufflet, Pierre, Wood, Sebastian, Wade, Jessica, Moriarty, John, Gann, Eliot, Ratcliff, Erin L., McNeill, Christopher R., Sirringhaus, Henning, Ji-Seon Kim, Heeney, Martin
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Publicado: American Chemical Society 6/3/2015
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          Zhuping Fei
          Boufflet, Pierre
          Wood, Sebastian
          Wade, Jessica
          Moriarty, John
          Gann, Eliot
          Ratcliff, Erin L.
          McNeill, Christopher R.
          Sirringhaus, Henning
          Ji-Seon Kim
          Heeney, Martin
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          Department of Chemistry and Centre for Plastic Electronics, Imperial College London, Exhibition Rd, London SW7 2AZ, U.K
          Department of Physics and Centre for Plastic Electronics, Imperial College London, Exhibition Rd, London SW7 2AZ, U.K
          Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, J J Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 OHE, U.K.
          Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia
          Australian Synchrotron, 800 Blackburn Road, Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia
          Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, United States
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        Fluorination
        Polythiophenes
        Density functional theory
        Alkyl compounds
        Polymerization
        Fluorine
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          Fluorination
          Polythiophenes
          Density functional theory
          Alkyl compounds
          Polymerization
          Fluorine
      ab: We report two strategies toward the synthesis of 3-alkyl-4-fluorothiophenes containing straight (hexyl and octyl) and branched (2-ethylhexyl) alkyl groups. We demonstrate that treatment of the dibrominated monomer with 1 equiv of alkyl Grignard reagent leads to the formation of a single regioisomer as a result of the pronounced directing effect of the fluorine group. Polymerization of the resulting species affords highly regioregular poly(3-alkyl-4-fluoro)- thiophenes. Comparison of their properties to those of the analogous non-fluorinated polymers shows that backbone fluorination leads to an increase in the polymer ionization potential without a significant change in optical band gap. Fluorination also results in an enhanced tendency to aggregate in solution, which is ascribed to a more co-planar backbone on the basis of Raman and DFT calculations. Average charge carrier mobilities in field-effect transistors are found to increase by up to a factor of 5 for the fluorinated polymers.
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