Synthesis and Application of Perylene-Embedded Benzoazoles for Small-Molecule Organic Solar Cells

Org Lett. 2018 Oct 19;20(20):6376-6379. doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.8b02650. Epub 2018 Oct 8.

Abstract

Two new building blocks of perylene-embedded benzoazoles containing both rigid 2D-conjugated aromatic rings and flexible branched alkyl chains were designed and facilely synthesized in high yields for organic solar cells (OSCs). With a typical acceptor of diketopyrrolopyrrole, small molecular OSC donors constructed in an acceptor-fused donor-acceptor motif exhibit excellent solubility, stability, and light absorption with tunable frontier orbitals, leading to a power conversion efficiency of up to 2.88% in preliminary OSCs.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't