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Chemical Communications

A new type of soluble pentacene precursor for organic thin-film transistors†

Kew-Yu Chen,a   Hsing-Hung Hsieh,b   Chung-Chih Wu,*b   Jiunn-Jye Hwangc  and  Tahsin J. Chow*d  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan
E-mail: kychen@chem.sinica.edu.tw
Fax: 886-2-23636359

b Department of Electrical Engineering and Graduate Institute of Electronic Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan
E-mail: chungwu@cc.ee.ntu.edu.tw
Fax: 886-2-23671909
Tel: 886-2-33663636

c AU Optronic Corporation, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan
E-mail: jjhwang@auo.com
Fax: 886-3-563-3082
Tel: 886-3-5008800 ext. 1437

d Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taipei 115, Taiwan
E-mail: tjchow@chem.sinica.edu.tw
Fax: 886-2-27884179
Tel: 886-2-27898552

Abstract

A new type of soluble pentacene precursor is synthesized, which extrudes a unit of CO upon heating at 150 °C, to produce pentacene in nearly quantitative yield.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B616511G
Article type
Communication
Submitted
13 Nov 2006
Accepted
28 Nov 2006
First published
14 Dec 2006

Chem. Commun., 2007, 1065-1067

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A new type of soluble pentacene precursor for organic thin-film transistors

K. Chen, H. Hsieh, C. Wu, J. Hwang and T. J. Chow, Chem. Commun., 2007, 1065 DOI: 10.1039/B616511G

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