Yuan Zhongyi, Lee Shern-Long, Chen Long, Li Chen, Mali Kunal S, De Feyter Steven, Müllen Klaus
Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz (Germany), Fax: (+49) 6131-379-350.
Chemistry. 2013 Sep 2;19(36):11842-6. doi: 10.1002/chem.201302086. Epub 2013 Aug 16.
Long and planar: Facile syntheses of soluble hexarylene diimides (HDI) and octarylene diimides (ODI) are described. They are stable in both solution and the solid state and exhibit broad and intense NIR absorption. Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) reveals that HDI, after deposition from solution, forms a unique herringbone bilayer or stable multilayers depending on the concentration.