title: Ladder pi-conjugated materials containing main-group elements.
abstract: Ladder pi-conjugated compounds, which have fully ring-fused polycyclic skeletons, are an important class of materials possessing significant potentials for application in organic electronics. The incorporation of main-group elements, such as B, Si, P, S, and Se, into the ladder skeletons as bridging moieties is a powerful strategy to endow unusual electronic structures as well as suitable molecular arrangements in the solid state, giving rise to attractive photophysical and electronic properties. Recent efforts have produced a number of fascinating ladder materials, some of which indeed showed high performance as light-emitting materials and charge carrier transporting materials. This Focus Review is an overview of the progress in this chemistry, focusing on several important pi-conjugated skeletons.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Furo, Chikusa, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan.
authors.forename: Aiko
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fukazawa
authors.forename: Shigehiro
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yamaguchi