The Literature of Heterocyclic Chemistry, Part VIII, 1999–2001

A furan-containing conjugated polymer for high mobility ambipolar organic thin film transistors

“…1,2 Other five membered heterocycles such as selenophene, furan and pyrrole are also promising blocks. 3 There have been a few reports on selenophene OTFTs 4 however, furan and pyrrole have hitherto not been adequately explored for such applications. Furan is a promising block for constructing novel organic semiconductors due to its equivalent aromaticity levels compared to thiophene.…”

Furan containing diketopyrrolopyrrolecopolymers: synthesis, characterization, organic field effect transistor performance and photovoltaic properties

“…Such a high coplanarity is favourable for efficient charge transport properties and stronger D-A interactions along the conjugated backbone. Thiophene, selenophene, furan, and pyrrole are important five-membered aromatic heterocycles 28 for designing and synthesizing novel organic semiconductors. Among them, thiophene is one of the most studied heterocyclic compounds for organic electronic applications but fewer studies have been done on furan containing materials for OTFT and OPV applications.…”