Donor-substituted octacyano[4]dendralenes: A new class of cyano-rich non-planar organic acceptors

Chemical Science

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 88-93

  Breiten, Benjamin ^a   Wu, Yi Lin ^a   Jarowski, Peter D ^a   Gisselbrecht, Jean Paul ^b   Boudon, Corinne ^b   Griesser, Markus ^c   Onitsch, Christine ^c   Gescheidt, Georg ^c   Schweizer, W Bernd ^a   Langer, Nicolle ^d   Lennartze, Christian ^d   Diederich, Francois ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^c GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^d BASF SE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNT CALCULATION; ADIABATIC ELECTRON AFFINITY; CONFORMATIONAL PREFERENCES; DIMER FORMATION; ELECTRON ACCEPTOR; ELECTRON-ACCEPTING; F4-TCNQ; FOLDED CONFORMATION; GASPHASE; GLOBAL ENERGY MINIMA; INTRAMOLECULAR CHARGE TRANSFERS; LOW ENERGIES; ONE-ELECTRON REDUCTIONS; ORGANIC ACCEPTORS; P-TYPE DOPANT; TETRACYANOETHENE; TETRACYANOQUINODIMETHANE;

CHARGE TRANSFER; CHROMOPHORES; CONFORMATIONS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRONS; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES (OLED); ORGANIC POLYMERS;

ELECTRON AFFINITY;

EID: 79954995407     PISSN: 20416520     EISSN: 20416539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c0sc00387e     Document Type: Article

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