Rainbow Perylene Monoimides: Easy Control of Optical Properties

✍ Scribed by Chen Li; Jan Schöneboom; Zhihong Liu; Neil G. Pschirer; Peter Erk; Andreas Herrmann; Klaus Müllen

• Book ID: 102794134
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 558 KB
• Volume: 15
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0947-6539
• DOI: 10.1002/chem.200802126

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Perylene dyes have been widely used as photoreceptors in organic photovoltaics because of their outstanding photo‐, thermal and chemical stability as well as their excellent photophysical properties. Herein we describe a novel generation of perylene dyes based on N‐(2,6‐diisopropylphenyl)‐perylene‐3,4‐dicarboximide. The optical properties of these novel perylenes can be finely tuned via the substituents in the 1‐, 6‐ and 9‐positions of the perylene core. The facile synthesis, tunable orbital and absorption properties, and electrochemical potentials help us to design efficient perylene sensitizers for solar‐cell applications.