Novel 3-acetyl-2-aminothiophenes were prepared from cyanoacetone and 1,4-dithianyl-2,5-diols using a modified Gewald reaction. The syntheses of the corresponding acetamides, as well as that of 3-acetyl-2-amino-5-nitrothiophene - an interesting building-block for thiophene azo dyes - are reported. Detailed spectroscopic investigations ((1)H-NMR, (13)C-NMR, MS, IR) of the obtained compounds are p...

Naphthalene diimide (NDI, Fig. 1), one of the imide-based p-extended structures, has been widely utilized in chromophores, supramolecular architectures, and electronic materials. One of the effective ways to control the opto/electronic properties of NDI is to extend the p-system with fused aromatic or heteroaromatic ring(s), which affords core-extended NDIs, often referred as cNDIs. Whereas mos...

A convenient and efficient three-component reaction to a one-pot synthesis of thiophene derivatives from activated acetylenic compounds and ethyl 2chloroacetoacetate in the presence of tetramethyl thiourea in water lead to the formation of thiophenes in good yields.

Thiophene was taken as a model compound for investigations on the efficiency of a continuous process of the vacuum-ultraviolet- (VUV-) photochemically initiated oxidation and mineralization of sulfur containing organic compounds in the gas phase. In the presence of molecular oxygen, atomic oxygen and ozone were photochemically generated and are assumed to initiate or participate in the (thermal...

A recent study of the interaction of a lithium atom with the thiophene molecule found a large disagreement between high-level coupled cluster (CCSD(T)/AVTZ) and quantum Monte Carlo (fixed-node diffusion Monte Carlo, or FNDMC) calculations. We address this "lithium-thiophene riddle" by analyzing the influence of crucial FNDMC simulation parameters, namely, the one-electron models, basis sets, an...

Studies for determination of sulphur functional groups present in Ledo coal of Assam State of North Eastern Region of India were carried out using Temperature Programmed Reduction (TPR) method. TPR studies were carried out in presence of Resorcinol and hydrogen gas to arrive at the final result. TPR studies on model sulphur compounds viz. L-Cysteine, synthetic rubber, Thiokol, having hydroxyl t...

Phenoxyl-imidazolyl radical complex (PIC) is a novel photochromic compound, which generates two nonequivalent radicals upon UV light irradiation. While the color fading speed of PIC can be tuned from tens of nanoseconds to seconds, the low visible sensitivity has limited their potential applications. Herein, we developed novel thiophene-substituted PIC derivatives. The visible sensitivity and t...

A series of novel thiophene-flanked benzodipyrrolidone (BPT)-based alternating copolymers are synthesised, their optical and electrical properties evaluated. The BPT unit promotes a conjugated, planar polymer backbone, with a low bandgap, primarily due to low lying LUMO energy levels. Copolymerisation with thiophene exhibits well balanced ambipolar organic field-effect transistor performance, w...

A novel ligand, 5,5'-(2,2'-bipyridine-4,4'-diyl)-bis(thiophene-2-carboxylic acid) (BTC), and its Ru(II) complex (BTC-1) in which the anchoring group is attached to the thiophene units were developed. Using a low-volatility electrolyte and 3.3 mum mesoporous TiO2 films BTC-1 achieved a solar-to-electricity conversion efficiency of 6.1%, compared to 4.8% for N719 under the same experimental condi...