Thiazole as a weak electron-donor unit to lower the frontier orbital energy levels of donor-acceptor alternating conjugated materials

Chem Commun (Camb). 2013 Nov 4;49(85):9938-40. doi: 10.1039/c3cc45481a.

Abstract

We demonstrate that the substitution of the thiophene by the thiazole heterocyclic compound as a weak electron-donor unit, in donor-acceptor alternating conjugated materials, allows a simultaneous downshift of both HOMO and LUMO levels while keeping the energy bandgap almost unchanged.