title: Novel core-expanded rylenebis(dicarboximide) dyes bearing pentacene units: facile synthesis and photophysical properties.
abstract: Two synthetic routes for the benzannulation in the "bay"-region of rylenebis(dicarboximide)s leading to new pi-system-expanded chromophores are described. The first route follows a two-step approach: Suzuki coupling of bromo-substituted perylenebis(dicarboximide) with 2-bromophenylboronic acid, followed by palladium-catalysed dehydrobromination. The second route is best described as a palladium-assisted cycloaddition of benzyne, formed in situ, to the bay-region of the bromo-substituted rylene core. Two new types of core-expanded rylene dyes were synthesised: yellow dibenzocoronenebis(dicarboximide)s, absorbing at 490 nm, and a green dinaphthoquaterrylenebis(dicarboximide), which absorbs at 700 nm. These new chromophores are characterised by significant hypsochromic shifts of absorption, compared to their parent rylenebis(dicarboximide)s, excellent photostabilities and high fluorescence quantum yields.
authors.affiliation: Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany.
authors.forename: Yuri
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Avlasevich
authors.forename: Sibylle
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Müller
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Erk
authors.forename: Klaus
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Müllen