Fulleropyrrolidine end-capped molecular wires for molecular electronics--synthesis, spectroscopic, electrochemical, and theoretical characterization

Jakob Kryger Sørensen; Jeppe Fock; Anders Holmen Pedersen; Asger B Petersen; Karsten Jennum; Klaus Bechgaard; Kristine Kilså; Victor Geskin; Jérôme Cornil; Thomas Bjørnholm; Mogens Brøndsted Nielsen

doi:10.1021/jo102066x

Fulleropyrrolidine end-capped molecular wires for molecular electronics--synthesis, spectroscopic, electrochemical, and theoretical characterization

Jakob Kryger Sørensen, Jeppe Fock, Anders Holmen Pedersen, Asger B Petersen, Karsten Jennum, Klaus Bechgaard, Kristine Kilså, Victor Geskin, Jérôme Cornil, Thomas Bjørnholm, Mogens Brøndsted Nielsen

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In continuation of previous studies showing promising metal-molecule contact properties a variety of C₆₀ end-capped "molecular wires" for molecular electronics were prepared by variants of the Prato 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction. Either benzene or fluorene was chosen as the central wire, and synthetic protocols for derivatives terminated with one or two fullero[c]pyrrolidine "electrode anchoring" groups were developed. An aryl-substituted aziridine could in some cases be employed directly as the azomethine ylide precursor for the Prato reaction without the need of having an electron-withdrawing ester group present. The effect of extending the π-system of the central wire from 1,4-phenylenediamine to 2,7-fluorenediamine was investigated by absorption, fluorescence, and electrochemical methods. The central wire and the C₆₀ end-groups were found not to electronically communicate in the ground state. However, the fluorescence of C₆₀ was quenched by charge transfer from the wire to C₆₀. Quantum chemical calculations predict and explain the collapse of coherent electronic transmission through one of the fulleropyrrolidine-terminated molecular wires.

Original language	English
Journal	The Journal of Organic Chemistry
Volume	76
Issue number	1
Pages (from-to)	245-63
Number of pages	19
ISSN	0022-3263
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/jo102066x
Publication status	Published - 7 Jan 2011

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Sørensen, J. K., Fock, J., Pedersen, A. H., Petersen, A. B., Jennum, K., Bechgaard, K., Kilså, K., Geskin, V., Cornil, J., Bjørnholm, T., & Nielsen, M. B. (2011). Fulleropyrrolidine end-capped molecular wires for molecular electronics--synthesis, spectroscopic, electrochemical, and theoretical characterization. The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 76(1), 245-63. https://doi.org/10.1021/jo102066x

Fulleropyrrolidine end-capped molecular wires for molecular electronics--synthesis, spectroscopic, electrochemical, and theoretical characterization. / Sørensen, Jakob Kryger; Fock, Jeppe; Pedersen, Anders Holmen et al.
In: The Journal of Organic Chemistry, Vol. 76, No. 1, 07.01.2011, p. 245-63.

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Sørensen, JK, Fock, J, Pedersen, AH, Petersen, AB, Jennum, K, Bechgaard, K, Kilså, K, Geskin, V, Cornil, J, Bjørnholm, T & Nielsen, MB 2011, 'Fulleropyrrolidine end-capped molecular wires for molecular electronics--synthesis, spectroscopic, electrochemical, and theoretical characterization', The Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 76, no. 1, pp. 245-63. https://doi.org/10.1021/jo102066x

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