Perylene-3,4;9,10-tetracarboxydiimide based structures for molecular electronics application

ORGN 438

Ping Yan, Arindam Chowdhury, Michael W. Holman, Koon-Cheung Ching, and David M. Adams. Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, 3000 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
Due to its strong fluorescence, high thermo-stablity and structural rigidity, perylene-3,4;9,10-tetracarboxydiimide (PDI) was utilized to synthesize a variety of structures for molecular electronics applications, including, large rigid tetrahedral molecules that can stand up on surfaces for AFM and single molecule spectroscopy studies; PDI with long chain carboxylic acids that self-assembles on surfaces for electric field switching studies of fluorescence; PDI-carbazole structures with switchable fluorescence by chemical modification (acylation, trifluoroacylation and tosylation)and dielectric sensitivity to solvent.
 

Physical Organic, Materials, Heterocycles, Aromatics, Metal-Mediated Reactions
8:00 PM-10:00 PM, Tuesday, September 9, 2003 Hilton New York -- Americas Hall 1, Poster

Sci-Mix
8:00 PM-10:00 PM, Monday, September 8, 2003 Javits Convention Center -- North Pavillion, Sci-Mix

Division of Organic Chemistry
The 226th ACS National Meeting, New York, NY, September 7-11, 2003