Acenes with extended ?-conjugation find enormous application in organic electronics. For example, pentacene is the most widely used material which is well suited only for hole (p) conduction, but not for electron (n) conduction. However both types of semiconductors are required for the fabrication of OLEDs or inverters which calls for alternative materials with similar properties but low valence orbital energies. A convenient approach for the lowering of the orbital energies is the introduction of fluorine atoms.The perfluoro analogues of simple arenes have been described up to the pentacene derivative. Interestingly, the chemical behavior of these systems, with the exception of the commercially available perfluoronaphthalene, has not yet been studied in detail. The current talk discusses the syntheses and the reactivity of the perfluoroanthracene systems with emphasis on their nucleophilic substitution reactivity.

Synthesis and reactivity of perfluoroanthracene

248th National Meeting (2014)

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