Syntheses and properties of thienyl-substituted dithienophenazines

• Annemarie Meyer,
• Eva Sigmund,
• Friedhelm Luppertz,
• Gregor Schnakenburg,
• Immanuel Gadaczek,
• Thomas Bredow,
• Stefan-S. Jester and
• Sigurd Höger

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2010, 6, 1180–1187, doi:10.3762/bjoc.6.135

• : oligothiophenes; phenazines; scanning tunneling microscopy; self-assembled monolayers; TD-DFT calculations; Introduction Thiophene based oligomers and polymers have drawn considerable interest as active materials in various fields of organic electronics such as organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), organic thin

• ]. In addition, fused bithiophenes with an enforced planarity, and therefore reduced optical gaps, and an increased π–π overlap of the polycyclic molecule backbone have entered various fields of organic electronics [9][10][11][12][13]. Apart from their optoelectronic properties, linear and branched as