Linear and star-shaped pyrazinacenes 1a-b and 2 were synthesized via condensation between a new building block 11 and pyrene tetraones or cyclohexaone. Compound 2 represents the largest star-shaped dihydropyrazine fused pyrazinacene reported so far. These largely expanded pyrazinacenes show good solubility and have a strong tendency to aggregate in both solution and thin films, indicating their potential applications for organic electronic devices.

Two series of stable and soluble fulleropyrrolidines have been prepared from the reactions of C 60 , glycine or its N-arylated derivatives and aliphatic aldehydes or ketones in refluxing toluene or chlorobenzene. The new C 60 derivatives represent new useful building blocks for further preparation of more funcionalized C 60 derivatives.

Several bisacenaphthopyrazinoquinoxaline (BAPQ) based derivatives 1-3 were synthesized by condensation between the acenaphthenequinones and 1,2,4,5-tetraaminobenzene tetrahydrochloride. Their optical, electrochemical and self-assembling properties are tuned by different substituents. Among them, compound 3 possesses a homogeneously distributed low-lying LUMO due to the peripheral substitution with four cyano groups. The corresponding n-channel field effect transistors showed a field effect electron mobility of 5 × 10(-3) cm(2) V(-1) s(-1).

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