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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Organic Materials 2021; 03(02): 390-404
DOI: 10.1055/a-1534-1508
Focus Issue: Supramolecular Optoelectronic Materials
Original Article

Structure–Assembly–Property Relationships of Simple Ditopic Hydrogen-Bonding-Capable π-Conjugated Oligomers

Asmerom O. Weldeab 
a   Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, PO Box 117200, Gainesville, FL, 32611, United States
,
Cory T. Kornman 
a   Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, PO Box 117200, Gainesville, FL, 32611, United States
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Lei Li 
a   Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, PO Box 117200, Gainesville, FL, 32611, United States
b   Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, 29634, United States
,
Daken J. Starkenburg
c   Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Florida, PO Box 116400, Gainesville, FL, 32611, United States
,
Xueying Zhao
c   Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Florida, PO Box 116400, Gainesville, FL, 32611, United States
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Danielle E. Fagnani 
a   Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, PO Box 117200, Gainesville, FL, 32611, United States
,
Sara J. Sadovy
c   Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Florida, PO Box 116400, Gainesville, FL, 32611, United States
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Scott S. Perry
c   Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Florida, PO Box 116400, Gainesville, FL, 32611, United States
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Jiangeng Xue 
c   Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Florida, PO Box 116400, Gainesville, FL, 32611, United States
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Ronald K. Castellano 
a   Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, PO Box 117200, Gainesville, FL, 32611, United States
› Author Affiliations Funding Information R. K. C. and J. X. are thankful to the National Science Foundation for supporting this research (CHE-1507561 and CHE-1904534). The mass spectrometric data were obtained by the UF Department of Chemistry Mass Spectrometry Research and Education Center supported, in part, by the National Institutes of Health (NIH S10OD021758-01A1).
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ErrataOrganic Materials 2021; 3(03): e1-e1
DOI: 10.1055/s-0041-1735239

Abstract

A series of simple ditopic hydrogen-bonding-capable molecules functionalized with 2,4-diamino-1,3,5-triazine (DAT), barbiturate (B), and phthalhydrazide (PH) on both termini of a 2,2′-bithiophene linker were designed and synthesized. The intrinsic electronic structures of the ditopic DAT, PH, and B molecules were investigated with ground-state density functional theory calculations. Their solution absorbance was investigated with UV-vis, where it was found that increasing size of R group substituents on the bithiophene linker resulted in a general blue-shift in solution absorbance maximum. The solid-state optical properties of ditopic DAT and B thin films were evaluated by UV-vis, and it was found that the solid-state absorbance was red-shifted with respect to solution absorbance in all cases. The three DAT molecules were vacuum-thermal-deposited onto Au(111) substrates and the morphologies were examined using scanning tunneling microscopy. (DAT-T)2 was observed to organize into six-membered rosettes on the surface, whereas (DAT-TMe)2 formed linear assemblies before and after thermal annealing. For (DAT-Toct)2 , an irregular arrangement was observed, while (B-TMe)2 showed several co-existent assembly patterns. The work presented here provides fundamental molecular–supramolecular relationships useful for semiconductive materials design based on ditopic hydrogen-bonding-capable building blocks.

Key words

conjugated molecules - hydrogen bonding - organic monolayers - optoelectronic properties - self-assembly - supramolecular chemistry

Supporting Information

Synthesis and structural characterization details, absorption data and associated Beer–Lambert plots, post-deposition analysis by NMR, TGA data, additional STM data, and computational details complete with coordinates of geometry-optimized structures.


Supporting Information for this article is available online at https://doi.org/10.1055/a-1534-1508.


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Publication History

Received: 24 May 2021

Accepted: 17 June 2021

Accepted Manuscript online:
22 June 2021

Article published online:
25 August 2021

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