Acenes exhibit unique properties amongst organic molecules which are of interest to chemists. Much research has been focused on tuning the properties of acenes and studying how functionalization influences structure property relationships. A little explored area of acene chemistry is the incorporation of a BN bond. We present herein the first examples of the BN containing acenes anthracene and tetracene. Additionally, we report on the ability of BN anthracene to discriminate thermal and fast neutrons from a gamma ray background.

Synthesis and neutron detection of boron nitrogen containing acenes

245th National Meeting (2013)

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