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Synfacts 2010(8): 0890-0890  
DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1257841
Synthesis of Materials and Unnatural Products
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Simple Perfluoroalkylation

Contributor(s): Timothy M. Swager, Jeewoo Lim
Y. Li, C. Li, W. Yue, W. Jiang, R. Kopecek, J. Qu*, Z. Wang*
Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, P. R. of China and BASF SE, Ludwigshafen, Germany
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22 July 2010 (online)

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Significance

Perylene bisimide (PBI) 1 is utilized as n-type organic semiconductor. The authors’ ­elegantly simple method of perfluoroalkylation provides for a novel method of functionalizing the bay positions of these interesting compounds.