Electronic properties of trifluoromethylated corannulenes

Abstract

With great stacking comes great conductivity: trifluoromethylated corannulenes are unexpectedly strong electron acceptors in solution. Even a polycrystalline film of 1,2-(F(3)C)(2)-corannulene (top structure and curve in the plot) exhibits conductivity three orders of magnitude higher than that of pristine corannulene!