Electronegative oligothiophenes for n-type semiconductors: Difluoromethylene-bridged bithiophene and its oligomers

Organic Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2115-2118

  Ie, Yutaka ^a   Nitani, Masashi ^a   Ishikawa, Motomi ^b   Nakayama, Ken Ichi ^b   Tada, Hirokazu ^a   Kaneda, Takahiro ^a   Aso, Yoshio ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

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EID: 34250658049     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol070584a     Document Type: Article

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