Gold-Catalyzed Synthesis of π-Extended Carbazole-Based Systems and their Application as Organic Semiconductors

Abstract

Herein we describe a gold-catalyzed bidirectional synthesis of N-heteropolycyclic compounds bearing carbazole moieties – namely π-extended benzodicarbazoles and π-extended indolocarbazoles. Overall, four previously unknown core structures were synthesized. This approach is convergent, modular and the gold-catalyzed key step comprises of a cascade reaction starting from stable di-azido compounds. The obtained molecules were fully characterized and their optical and electronic properties as well as their performance in organic thin-film transistors generated by vacuum deposition were studied. Charge-carrier mobilities of up to 0.3 cm2/Vs were measured. (Figure presented.).