title: Naphthalimide-based triptycenes: synthesis and optoelectronic properties.
abstract: In the past decades, the naphthalimide structure has found application in many areas of chemistry due to its unique photophysical properties. Naphthalimide has two isomers, 1,8-naphthalimide containing a six-membered imide ring and 2,3-naphthalimide containing a five-membered imide ring. The former has been widely investigated while studies on the latter are considerably more rare. On the other hand, naphthalimide can also be regarded as a building block to construct polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), which have found wide applications in optical materials. Here we report the synthesis and optoelectronic properties of three 2,3-naphthalimide-based triptycenes. These three triptycene derivatives enrich the family of triptycenes.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Pesticide&Chemical Biology, Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Central China Normal University, 152 Luoyu Road, Wuhan, Hubei 430079 (China), Fax: (+86) 27-67867725.
authors.forename: Di
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Hua
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Sheng Hua
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yin
mesh_terms: D000873:Anthracenes / Q000138:chemical synthesis*; D004563:Electrochemistry; D015394:Molecular Structure; D053644:Naphthalimides / Q000737:chemistry*; D010777:Photochemistry
chemical_list: D000873:Anthracenes; D053644:Naphthalimides
keywords: Diels-Alder reaction; naphthalimide; optoelectronic properties; triptycenes