Alkylenesulfanyl-bridged bithienyl cores for simultaneous tuning of electronic, filming, and thermal properties of oligothiophenes

Organic Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 3665-3668

  Navacchia, Maria Luisa ^a   Melucci, Manuela ^a   Favaretto, Laura ^a   Zanelli, Alberto ^a   Gazzano, Massimo ^a   Bongini, Alessandro ^b   Barbarella, Giovanna ^a  

^a Istituto per la Sintesi Organica e la Fotoreattività   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUSED HETEROCYCLIC RINGS; THIEPIN DERIVATIVE; THIOPHENE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; SYNTHESIS;

BICYCLO COMPOUNDS, HETEROCYCLIC; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; THIEPINS; THIOPHENES;

EID: 55949094395     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol801261r     Document Type: Article

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