Synthesis of pyridine-capped diketopyrrolopyrrole and its use as a building block of low band-gap polymers for efficient polymer solar cells

Jae Woong Jung; Feng Liu; Thomas P Russell; Won Ho Jo

doi:10.1039/c3cc44676j

Synthesis of pyridine-capped diketopyrrolopyrrole and its use as a building block of low band-gap polymers for efficient polymer solar cells

Chem Commun (Camb). 2013 Oct 4;49(76):8495-7. doi: 10.1039/c3cc44676j.

Authors

Jae Woong Jung¹, Feng Liu, Thomas P Russell, Won Ho Jo

Affiliation

¹ Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 151-744, Korea. whjpoly@snu.ac.kr.

PMID: 23939290
DOI: 10.1039/c3cc44676j

Abstract

A new building block for low band-gap polymers, diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP) flanked by pyridine (PyDPP), has been synthesized via a simple synthetic route. PyDPP was polymerized with bithiophene (BT) to afford a low band-gap copolymer (PBTPyDPP) which was used as an electron donor of the active layer in polymer solar cells. The solar cell device based on PBTPyDPP exhibited a promising PCE of 4.9% with a high VOC over 0.9 V, which is one of the highest values among DPP-based polymer solar cells.