Influence of Structural Variation on the Solid-State Properties of Diketopyrrolopyrrole-Based Oligophenylenethiophenes: Single-Crystal Structures, Thermal Properties, Optical Bandgaps, Energy Levels, Film Morphology, and Hole Mobility

2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (10) ◽  
pp. 1699-1709 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chunki Kim ◽  
Jianhua Liu ◽  
Jason Lin ◽  
Arnold B. Tamayo ◽  
Bright Walker ◽  
...  
Molecules ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (14) ◽  
pp. 3162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dalila Rocco ◽  
Alessandro Prescimone ◽  
Edwin C. Constable ◽  
Catherine E. Housecroft

The preparation and characterization of 4′-(4-n-octyloxyphenyl)-3,2′:6′,3″-terpyridine (8) and 4′-(4-n-nonyloxyphenyl)-3,2′:6′,3″-terpyridine (9) are reported. The single crystal structures of 4′-(4-n-hexyloxyphenyl)-3,2′:6′,3″-terpyridine (6), 4′-(4-n-heptyloxyphenyl)-3,2′:6′,3″-terpyridine (7), and compounds 8 and 9 have been determined. The conformation of the 3,2′:6′,3″-tpy unit is trans,trans in 6 and 7, but switches to cis,trans in 8 and 9. This is associated with significant changes in the packing interactions with a more dominant role for van der Waals interactions between adjacent n-alkyloxy chains and C–Hmethylene... π interactions in 8 and 9. The solid-state structures of 6 and 7 with the n-hexyloxy and n-heptyloxy chains feature interwoven sheets of supramolecular assemblies of molecules, with pairs of n-alkyloxy chains threaded through cavities in an adjacent sheet.


2014 ◽  
Vol 67 (7) ◽  
pp. 1005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Dumitrescu ◽  
Yves-Marie Legrand ◽  
Nathalie Masquelez ◽  
Arie van der Lee ◽  
Mihail Barboiu

Four single crystal structures were obtained in order to better understand the difference between the crystallisation-driven formation of solid state organo-sulfonate guanidinium superstructures and their sodium salt analogues. 5-Formyl-2-furfuryl sulfonate and 4,4′-diamino-2,2′-biphenyl disulfonate were chosen as anions due to functional and geometrical considerations together with guanidinium, aminoguanidinium, and sodium cations. 5-Formyl-2-fufuryl sulfonate reacts with aminoguanidinium cation in water leading to an imino-zwitterionic compound, able to form on its own a guanidinium-sulfonate superstructure in crystalline state.


2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 1148-1155 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. J. Moloto ◽  
N. Revaprasadu ◽  
G. A. Kolawole ◽  
P. O’brien ◽  
M. A. Malik ◽  
...  

Two new cadmium(II) complexes CdCl2[CS(NHCH3)2]2(1) and CdCl2(CS(NH2)NHC6H5)4(2) have been synthesized and characterized by spectroscopic and x-ray crystallographic methods. Both compounds are monomers in the solid state with the four and six coordinate and their coordination geometries based on distorted tetrahedron and distorted octahedron respectively. The thiourea ligands behave as monodentate in both compounds with the binding through sulfur. Complex (2) is one of the few examples of monomeric six coordinate Cd(II) complexes with four monodentate thiourea and two chloride ligands. The Cd-S bond proved useful as a source of preparing nanoparticles using these complexes as single source precursor at a temperature of 250 °C in trioctylphosphine oxide (TOPO).


2008 ◽  
Vol 61 (11) ◽  
pp. 847 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edwin C. Constable ◽  
Catherine E. Housecroft ◽  
Markus Neuburger ◽  
Sébastien Reymann ◽  
Silvia Schaffner

Metal:ligand complexes are crystallized from reaction mixtures of equimolar amounts of 4-cyano-3,6-bis(2-pyridyl)pyridazine 2 or 4-(4-bromophenyl)-3,6-bis(2-pyridyl)pyridazine 3 and silver(i) triflate. In [Ag2(2)2]2+, the two ligands adopt a head-to-tail arrangement, while a head-to-head motif is confirmed for the solid state structure of [Ag2(3)2]2+. In solution, one ligand environment is observed in each case. Silver(i) reacts with 1,3,5-tris{3,6-bis(2-pyridyl)pyridazin-4-yl}benzene 4 to give highly insoluble powders. The single crystal structures of the pseudopolymorphs (4)·Et2O and 2(4)·2MeCN·H2O are reported; in each structure, the ligand adopts the same conformation, derived from a Cs rather than C3v model structure.


Crystals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 325
Author(s):  
Giacomo Manfroni ◽  
Alessandro Prescimone ◽  
Edwin Constable ◽  
Catherine Housecroft

We have prepared and characterized 1,4-dibromo-2,5-bis(2-phenylethoxy)benzene (1) and 1,4-dibromo-2,5-bis(3-phenylpropoxy)benzene (2). Their single-crystal structures confirm that, at the molecular level, they are similar with the phenylalkoxy chains in extended conformations. However, there are significant differences in packing interactions. The packing in 1 is dominated by C–Br...π(arene) interactions, with each Br located over one C–C bond of the central arene ring of an adjacent molecule. In contrast, the packing of molecules of 2 involves a combination of C–H...Br hydrogen bonds, Br...Br interactions, and arene–arene π-stacking. The single-crystal structures of both orthorhombic and triclinic polymorphs of 1 have been determined and the packing interactions are shown to be essentially identical.


Chemistry ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 182-198
Author(s):  
Dalila Rocco ◽  
Samantha Novak ◽  
Alessandro Prescimone ◽  
Edwin C. Constable ◽  
Catherine E. Housecroft

We report the preparation and characterization of 4′-([1,1′-biphenyl]-4-yl)-3,2′:6′,3″-terpyridine (1), 4′-(4′-fluoro-[1,1′-biphenyl]-4-yl)-3,2′:6′,3″-terpyridine (2), 4′-(4′-chloro-[1,1′-biphenyl]-4-yl)-3,2′:6′,3″-terpyridine (3), 4′-(4′-bromo-[1,1′-biphenyl]-4-yl)-3,2′:6′,3″-terpyridine (4), and 4′-(4′-methyl-[1,1′-biphenyl]-4-yl)-3,2′:6′,3″-terpyridine (5), and their reactions with copper(II) acetate. Single-crystal structures of the [Cu2(μ-OAc)4L]n 1D-coordination polymers with L = 1–5 have been determined, and powder X-ray diffraction confirms that the single crystal structures are representative of the bulk samples. [Cu2(μ-OAc)4(1)]n and [Cu2(μ-OAc)4(2)]n are isostructural, and zigzag polymer chains are present which engage in π-stacking interactions between [1,1′-biphenyl]pyridine units. 1D-chains nest into one another to give 2D-sheets; replacing the peripheral H in 1 by an F substituent in 2 has no effect on the solid-state structure, indicating that bifurcated contacts (H...H for 1 or H...F for 2) are only secondary packing interactions. Upon going from [Cu2(μ-OAc)4(1)]n and [Cu2(μ-OAc)4(2)]n to [Cu2(μ-OAc)4(3)]n, [Cu2(μ-OAc)4(4)]n, and [Cu2(μ-OAc)4(5)]n·nMeOH, the increased steric demands of the Cl, Br, or Me substituent induces a switch in the conformation of the 3,2′:6′,3″-tpy metal-binding domain, and a concomitant change in dominant packing interactions to py–py and py–biphenyl face-to-face π-stacking. The study underlines how the 3,2′:6′,3″-tpy domain can adapt to different steric demands of substituents through its conformational flexibility.


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