she was a researcher of PRESTO, JST, and then a group leader of CREST project (2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014)(2015)(2016), JST, on "Construction of organic thin-film solar cells with innovative solutionprocessible organic materials". Her current research focuses on the development of functional organic materials including solution-processable molecular materials for organic electronics applications, large acenes and bottom-up synthesis of graphene nanoribbons.
AbstractThe structure and electronic features of neutral and positively charged pyrene and perylene derivatives were explored. The radical cation of 1,3,6,8-tetraarylpyrene 1 was examined by ESR, UVvisNIR spectroscopy and theoretical calculations. The addition of 2 equiv of oxidant to 1 resulted in the formation of dication 1
2+. The single-crystal X-ray structure of 1 2+ proved that the aromatic part relocates from biphenyl unit to naphthyl unit upon 2e ¹ oxidation of 1. We have also investigated the oxidation processes of 3,9-diarylperylene 2 and 3,10-diarylperylene 3. The radical cations of 2•+ and 3 •+ showed ESR signals and the spin densities were proven to delocalize at 3,4,9,10-positions. In the case of doubly charged 3,9-diarylperylene, we could find the anthracene structure in the core, while the phenanthrene skeleton appeared in two-electron oxidized 3,10-diarylperylene. Finally we validated this phenomenon to apply for the higher analogue terrylene, discovering its large aromaticity relocation upon the 2e ¹ oxidation.