Although perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have emerged as a promising alternative to widely used fossil fuels, the involved high‐temperature preparation of metal oxides as a charge transport layer in most state‐of‐the‐art PSCs has been becoming a big stumbling block for future low‐temperature and large‐scale R2R manufacturing process. Such an issue strongly encourages scientists to find new type of materials to replace metal oxides. Except for expensive PC61BM with unmanageable morphology and electrical properties, the past investigation on the development of low‐temperature‐processed and highly efficient electron transport layers (ETLs) has met some mixed success. In order to further enhance the performance of all‐solution‐processed PSCs, we propose a novel n‐type sulfur‐containing small molecule hexaazatrinaphtho[2,3‐c][1,2,5]thiadiazole (HATNT) with high electron mobility up to 1.73 × 10−2 cm2 V−1 s−1 as an ETL in planar heterojunction PSCs. A high power conversion efficiency of 18.1% is achieved, which is fully comparable with the efficiency from the control device fabricated with PC61BM as ETL. This superior performance mainly attributes from more effective suppression of charge recombination at the perovskite/HATNT interface than that between the perovskite and PC61 BM. Moreover, high electron mobility and strong interfacial interaction via SI or SPb bonding should be also positive factors. Significantly, our results undoubtedly enable new guidelines in exploring n‐type organic small molecules for high‐performance PSCs.

We demonstrate metal-oxide-free solution-processed inverted PSCs using sulfur-containing azaaceneTDTPas the ETL with a PCE of ∼18.2%.

Enantiomeric access to pentatomic biaryls is challenging due to their relatively low rotational barrier. Reported herein is the mild and highly enantioselective synthesis of 2,3′-biindolyls via underexplored integration of C−H activation and alkyne cyclization using a unified chiral Rh(III) catalyst. The reaction proceeded via initial C−H activation followed by alkyne cyclization. A chiral rhodacyclic intermediate has been isolated from stoichiometric C−H activation, which offers direct mechanistic insight.

It is highly desirable to develop novel n-type organic small molecules as an efficient electron-transport layer (ETL) for the replacement of PCBM to obtain high-performance metal-oxide-free, solution-processed inverted perovskite solar cells (PSCs) because this type of solar cells with a low-temperature and solution-based process would make their fabrication more feasible and practical. In this research, the new azaacene QCAPZ has been synthesized and employed as non-fullerene ETL material for inverted PSCs through a solution-based process without the need for additional dopants or additives. The as-fabricated inverted PSCs show a power conversion efficiency up to 10.26 %. Our results clearly suggest that larger azaacenes could be promising electron-transport materials to achieve high-performance solution-processed inverted PSCs.

Sulfoxonium ylides acts as a bifunctional C2-synthon in Rh(iii)-catalyzed redox-neutral annulative coupling with arenes for the synthesis of N-heterocycles and carbocycles.

A novel sp3 C-SCF3 coupling reaction between cycloketone oxime esters and S-trifluoromethyl 4-methylbenzenesulfonothioate was achieved. Ethanol was found to facilitate this transformation by trapping the sulfonyl cation. The metal-free and photocatalyst-free reaction conditions, as well as the broad substrate scope, make this a green protocol for the synthesis of SCF3-substituted nitriles.

A visible-light photocatalytic trifluoromethylthiolation of aryl amine through in situ generation of aryldiazonium salts with S-trifluoromethyl 4-methoxylbenzenesulfonothioate was developed.

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