Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry (Dec 2019)

Synthesis and optoelectronic properties of benzoquinone-based donor–acceptor compounds

  • Daniel R. Sutherland,
  • Nidhi Sharma,
  • Georgina M. Rosair,
  • Ifor D. W. Samuel,
  • Ai-Lan Lee,
  • Eli Zysman-Colman

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3762/bjoc.15.285
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 15, no. 1
pp. 2914 – 2921

Abstract

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Herein, we report a mild and efficient palladium-catalyzed C–H functionalization method to synthesize a series of benzoquinone (BQ)-based charge-transfer (CT) derivatives in good yields. The optoelectronic properties of these compounds were explored both theoretically and experimentally and correlations to their structures were identified as a function of the nature and position of the donor group (meta and para) attached to the benzoquinone acceptor. Compound 3, where benzoquinone is para-conjugated to the diphenylamine donor group, exhibited thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) with a biexponential lifetime characterized by a prompt ns component and a delayed component of 353 μs.

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