Hydrogen bond-rigidified planar squaraine dye and its electronic and organic semiconductor properties

Chem Commun (Camb). 2020 Aug 25;56(68):9890-9893. doi: 10.1039/d0cc04306k.

Abstract

The one-step reaction of a dicyanovinyl-functionalized squaric acid with Fischer bases afforded C2v symmetric squaraine dyes with rigid planar structures due to intramolecular N-HO hydrogen bonds. Dense molecular packing, decrease of HOMO level, and sufficient thermal stability for sublimation enabled vacuum-processed OTFTs with hole mobility up to 0.32 cm2 V-1 s-1 and current on/off ratio of 106.