Synthesis of a 4,8-dialkoxy-benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b']difuran unit and its application in photovoltaic polymer

Lijun Huo; Ye Huang; Benhu Fan; Xia Guo; Yan Jing; Maojie Zhang; Yongfang Li; Jianhui Hou

doi:10.1039/c2cc17708k

Synthesis of a 4,8-dialkoxy-benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b']difuran unit and its application in photovoltaic polymer

Chem Commun (Camb). 2012 Apr 4;48(27):3318-20. doi: 10.1039/c2cc17708k. Epub 2012 Feb 23.

Authors

Lijun Huo¹, Ye Huang, Benhu Fan, Xia Guo, Yan Jing, Maojie Zhang, Yongfang Li, Jianhui Hou

Affiliation

¹ State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.

PMID: 22361897
DOI: 10.1039/c2cc17708k

Abstract

A new building block of benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b']difuran (BDF) was firstly designed and synthesized. The newly designed unit was applied for constructing a new photovoltaic low band gap polymer, PBDFDTBT, which exhibited promising power conversion efficiency of 5.0%.