A new type of soluble pentacene precursor for organic thin-film transistors.
A new type of soluble pentacene precursor is synthesized, which extrudes a unit of CO upon heating at 150 degrees C, to produce pentacene in nearly quantitative yield.
Chen
Kew-Yu
KY
Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan. kychen@chem.sinica.edu.tw
Hsieh
Hsing-Hung
HH
Wu
Chung-Chih
CC
Hwang
Jiunn-Jye
JJ
Chow
Tahsin J
TJ