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Synthesis, optical, electrochemical, and thermal properties of conjugated α-fluorenyl oligothiophenes

…, D Meunmat, T Sudyoadsuk, S Saengsuwan…

Index: Promarak, Vinich; Punkvuang, Auradee; Meunmat, Duangratchaneegorn; Sudyoadsuk, Taweesak; Saengsuwan, Sayant; Keawin, Tinnagon Tetrahedron Letters, 2007 , vol. 48, # 6 p. 919 - 923

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Abstract

A series of new α-fluorenyl oligothiophenes up to the pentamer have been synthesized using Suzuki cross-coupling and bromination reactions. The optical, electrochemical, and thermal properties of these materials can be tuned by varying the number of thiophene rings. The longer oligomers (n⩾ 4) were stable, crystalline, and unreactive to electrochemical oxidative dimerization.