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  • Synthesis of a 4,8-dialkoxy-benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b']difuran unit and its application in photovoltaic polymer.

Synthesis of a 4,8-dialkoxy-benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b']difuran unit and its application in photovoltaic polymer.

Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) (2012-03-01)
Lijun Huo, Ye Huang, Benhu Fan, Xia Guo, Yan Jing, Maojie Zhang, Yongfang Li, Jianhui Hou
ABSTRACT

A new building block of benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b']difuran (BDF) was firstly designed and synthesized. The newly designed unit was applied for constructing a new photovoltaic low band gap polymer, PBDFDTBT, which exhibited promising power conversion efficiency of 5.0%.

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2-Ethylhexyl bromide, contains 1% potassium carbonate as stabilizer, 95%