Search results for "PHENYLENE"

Fast photoconduction in the highly ordered columnar phase of a discotic liquid crystal

1994

THE search for organic materials suitable for electronic applica-tions dates back to the early 1950s. But the only organic systems known so far to show electronic charge-carrier mobilities comparable to the amorphous inorganic semiconductors that are the main-stay of the microelectronics industry are zone-refined organic single crystals1–4. Single crystals are difficult and costly to process, however, and are not suitable for device applications. Here we show that a highly ordered columnar (stacked) phase of disk-like organic molecules can exhibit high mobilities for photoinduced charge carriers, of the order of 0.1 cm2 V-1 s-1—higher than for any organic material other than single-crystal …

CCDC 1555257: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination

2017

Related Article: Riia Annala, Aku Suhonen, Heikki Laakkonen, Perttu Permi, Maija Nissinen|2017|Chem.-Eur.J.|23|16671|doi:10.1002/chem.201703985

Heptagon-Containing Nanographene Embedded into [10]Cycloparaphenylene

2023

We report the synthesis and characterization of a novel type of nanohoop, consisting of a cycloparaphenylene derivative incorporating a curved heptagon-containing π-extended polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) unit. We demonstrate that this new macrocycle behaves as a supramolecular receptor of curved π-systems such as fullerenes C60 and C70, with remarkably large binding constants (ca. 107 M−1), as estimated by fluorescence measurements. Nanosecond and femtosecond spectroscopic analysis show that these host-guest complexes are capable of quasi-instantaneous charge separation upon photoexcitation, due to the ultrafast charge transfer from the macrocycle to the complexed fullerene. These r…

Dicopper(II) Metallacyclophanes with Electroswitchable Polymethyl-Substitutedpara-Phenylene Spacers

2013

Double-stranded anionic dinuclear copper(II) metallacyclic complexes of the paracyclophane type [Cu2L2]4- have been prepared by the CuII-mediated self-assembly of different para-phenylenebis(oxamato) bridging ligands with either zero-, one-, or four-electron-donating methyl substituents (L=N,N′-para- phenylenebis(oxamate) (ppba; 1), 2-methyl- N,N′-para-phenylenebis(oxamate) (Meppba; 2), and 2,3,5,6-tetramethyl- N,N′-para-phenylenebis(oxamate) (Me4ppba; 3)). These complexes have been isolated as their tetra-n-butylammonium (1 a-3 a), lithium(I) (1 b-3 b), and tetraphenylphosphonium salts (1 c-3 c). The X-ray crystal structures of 1 a and 3 c show a parallel-displaced π-stacked conformation w…

Molecular and electronic structure of square-planar nickel(ii), nickel(iii) and nickel(iii)π-cation radical complexes with a tetradentate o-phenylene…

2005

The molecular and electronic structures of the electron transfer series of four-coordinate square-planar nickel complexes with the ligand o-phenylenebis(N'-methyloxamidate), [NiL]z (z = 2-, 1-, 0), have been evaluated by DFT and TDDFT calculations, and most of their experimentally available structural and spectroscopic properties (X. Ottenwaelder et al., Dalton Trans., 2005, DOI: 10.1039/b502478a) have been reasonably reproduced at the B3LYP level of theory. The anionic species [NiL]2- and [NiL]- are genuine low-spin nickel II and nickel III complexes with diamagnetic singlet (S = 0) and paramagnetic doublet (S = 1/2) states, respectively. The nickel III complex presents shorter Ni-N(amidat…

Resource or waste? A perspective of plastics degradation in soil with a focus on end-of-life options.

2018

‘Capable-of-being-shaped’ synthetic compounds are prevailing today over horn, bone, leather, wood, stone, metal, glass, or ceramic in products that were previously left to natural materials. Plastic is, in fact, economical, simple, adaptable, and waterproof. Also, it is durable and resilient to natural degradation (although microbial species capable of degrading plastics do exist). In becoming a waste, plastic accumulation adversely affects ecosystems. The majority of plastic debris pollutes waters, accumulating in oceans. And, the behaviour and the quantity of plastic, which has become waste, are rather well documented in the water, in fact. This review collects existing information on pla…

Flexibility of phenylene oligomers revealed by single molecule spectroscopy

2006

The rigidity of a p-phenylene oligomer (p-terphenyl) has been investigated by single molecule confocal fluorescence microscopy. Two different rylene diimide dyes attached to the terminal positions of the oligomer allowed for wavelength selective excitation of the two chromophores. In combination with polarization modulation the spatial orientation of the transition dipoles of both end groups could be determined independently. We have analyzed 597 single molecules in two different polymer hosts, polymethylmethacrylate and Zeonex. On average we find a 22 degrees deviation from the linear gas phase geometry (T = 0 K), indicating a rather high flexibility of the p-phenylene oligomer independent…

In-Plane Anisotropy and Phase Change in Langmuir-Blodgett Films of a Triphenylene Derivative

1993

Abstract The “in-plane anisotropy” of a triphenylene derivative in Langmuir-Blodgett (L.B.) films has been investigated. Upon heating, L.B. films exhibit a reversible phase transition appearing as an abrupt increase from a low to a high “in-plane anisotropy” corresponding to the formation of the same hexagonal liquid crystal phase observed in the bulk material at almost the same temperature, with the columnar axis aligned along the dipping direction.

1993

Langmuir-Blodgett films from a polymer with triphenylene moieties in the side groups deposited on a quartz substratum with aluminium and gold electrodes show a dark conductivity in the plane of the Langmuir-Blodgett film. This dark conductivity is increased using gold electrodes as compared with aluminium electrodes. It depends in a superlinear way upon the applied electric field and is not enhanced by oxygen. The dark conductivity can be enhanced by doping the Langmuir-Blodgett films with iodine but it is not influenced by doping the Langmuir-Blodgett films with 2,4,7-trinitro-9-fluorenone. Upon excitation in the absorption band of the triphenylene moiety an in-plane photocurrent, which is…

1991

It is shown that the acceptor polyesters [(CH 2 ) x OCOC(=R) COO(CH 2 ) x ] n (R=9-[2,4,7-trinitrofluorenylidene]) x=3, 6, 8) influence the chain behaviour of the discotic hexapentyloxytriphenylene without changing the phase type (D ho ). The clearing temperature of the complexes has a maximum value when x=G. Both intra- and intercolumnar distance are smaller than in the pure discotic compound and independant of the spacer