Chemical Communications 2012-04-04

Synthesis of a 4,8-dialkoxy-benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b']difuran unit and its application in photovoltaic polymer.

Lijun Huo, Ye Huang, Benhu Fan, Xia Guo, Yan Jing, Maojie Zhang, Yongfang Li, Jianhui Hou

Index: Chem. Commun. (Camb.) 48(27) , 3318-20, (2012)

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Abstract

A new building block of benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b']difuran (BDF) was firstly designed and synthesized. The newly designed unit was applied for constructing a new photovoltaic low band gap polymer, PBDFDTBT, which exhibited promising power conversion efficiency of 5.0%.