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FT Raman and DFT Study on a Series of All-antiOligothienoacenes End-Capped with Triisopropylsilyl Groups

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minal a positions. These substituents aid in purification and solution processability, and can be removed under mild chemical conditions. For the first time, we have the opportunity to analyze a series of oligothienoacenes to gain insight into the fundamental structure–property relationships with respect to the addition of each ring. Furthermore, this series of compounds can be directly compared to other well-studied series of closely related oligomers, such as nonfused oligothiophenes and fully fused all-syn oligothienoacenes. [7] To gain precise insight into relationships between the structure and properties of a wide range of p-conjugated molecular Herein, we study the p-conjugational properties of a homologous series of all-anti oligothienoacenes containing four to eight fused thiophene rings by means of FT Raman spectroscopy and DFT calculations. The theoretical analysis of the spectroscopic data provides evidence that selective enhancement of a very limited number of Raman scatterings is related to the occurrence in these oligothienoacenes of strong vibronic coupling between collective nA=C) stretching modes in the 1600– 1300 cm � 1 region and the HOMO/LUMO frontier orbitals (HOMO = highest occupied molecular orbital; LUMO = lowest unoccupied molecular orbital). The correlation of the Raman spectroscopic data and theoretical results for these all-anti oligothienoacenes with those previously collected for a number of all-syn oligothienohelicenes gives further support to the expectation that cross-conjugation is dominant in heterohelicenes. Fully planar all-anti oligothienoacenes display linear p conjugation which seemingly does not reach saturation with increasing number of annulated thiophene rings in the oligomeric chain at least up to the octamer.