One-pot synthesis of well-defined oligo- butadiynylene-naphthalene diimides

Org Lett. 2010 Aug 6;12(15):3460-3. doi: 10.1021/ol101280e.

Abstract

A homogeneous series of well-defined oligo-butadiynylene-NDIs containing up to five naphthalene diimides (NDIs) moieties have been efficiently synthesized in one pot by oxidative homocoupling of 1,6-di((trimethylsilyl)ethynyl)naphthalene diimides in good yields.