Using a tight-binding model of charge transport in systems with static and dynamic disorder, we present a theoretical study of the positive charge transfer in molecular assemblies that involve a hole donor and an acceptor connected by fluorene and phenyl bridges. Two parameters that determine the rate of charge transfer within the proposed model are the charge transfer integral between neighbor...

The effect of the partial antiaromaticity of biphenylene on its substitution chemistry, its oxidation potential, and its single-molecule conductance is explored. Biphenylene and fluorene molecules with linkers of two amino groups or two cyclic thioether groups were synthesized and their conduction properties were investigated using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) break-junction techniques a...

Fluorene-containing PCBM analogs have been synthesized and tested with a polyfluorene copolymer, PF10TBT, in organic photovoltaic devices resulting in an increase of ∼130 mV in the open circuit voltage compared to devices with PCBM as acceptor material.

Light-driven molecular rotary motors derived from chiral overcrowded alkenes represent a broad class of compounds for which photochemical rearrangements lead to large scale motion of one part of the molecule with respect to another. It is this motion/change in molecular shape that is employed in many of their applications. A key group in this class are the molecular rotary motors that undergo u...

Dications of 9-(3-phenyl-1H-inden-1-ylidene)-5H-dibenzo[a,d]cycloheptene, 5(2+), were prepared by oxidation with SbF(5) in SO(2)ClF, and their magnetic behavior was compared to dications of 9-(3-phenyl-1H-inden-1-ylidene)-9H-fluorene, 2(2+). The good correlation between the experimental (1)H NMR shifts for the dications that were oxidized cleanly and the chemical shifts calculated by the GAIO m...

Conjugated donor-acceptor block co-oligomers that self-organize into D-A mesomorphic arrays have raised increasing interest due to their potential applications in organic solar cells. We report here a combined experimental and computational study of charge transfer (CT) state formation and recombination in isolated donor-spacer-acceptor oligomers based on bisthiophene-fluorene (D) and perylene ...

We study the influence of physical and chemical structure on chiroptical response fluorene-based polymeric systems reveal significance electric-magnetic coupling, at both short intermediate length scales magnitude dissymmetry.

A new strategy to realize efficient white-light emission from a binary fluorene-based copolymer (PF-Phq) with the fluorene segment as a blue emitter and the iridium complex, 9-iridium(III)bis(2-(2-phenyl-quinoline-N,C30)(11,13-tetradecanedionate))-3,6-carbazole (Phq), as a red emitter has been proposed and demonstrated. The photoand electroluminescence properties of the PF-Phq copolymers were i...