Dithienosilole moiety is an electron donating unit, and
it has
been applied, for example, as a part of small molecular and polymeric
electron donors in high performance organic photovoltaic cells. Herein,
we report efficient synthetic routes to two symmetrical, dithienosilolo-central-unit-based
A-D-A type organic semiconducting materials
DTS(Th
2
FBTTh)
2
and
DTS(ThFBTTh)
2
. Fine-tuned conditions
in Suzuki–Miyaura couplings were tested and utilized. The effect
of inserting additional hexylthiophene structures symmetrically into
the material backbone was investigated, and it was noted that contrary
to commonly accepted fact, the distance between electron donor and
acceptor seems to play a bigger role in lowering the
E
gap
value of the molecule than just extending the length
of the conjugated backbone. We searched for precedent cases from the
literature, and these are compared to our findings. The optical properties
of the materials were characterized with UV–vis spectroscopy.
Majority of the intermediate compounds along the way to final products
were produced with excellent yields. Our results offer highly efficient
routes to many heterocyclic structures but also give new insights
into the design of organic semiconducting materials.
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