Sulfur-substituted perylene diimides: efficient tuning of LUMO levels and visible-light absorption via sulfur redox.

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Key Laboratory of Biobased Polymer Materials, Shandong Provincial Education Department, College of Polymer Science and Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266042, P. R. China.

Published: November 2019


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A series of sulfide and sulfone substituted perylene diimides (PDIs) with different LUMO levels covering a range of 0.72 eV were synthesized through simple sulfur redox chemistry. The LUMO level of phenylsulfone substituted PDI reached a record-breaking -4.75 eV. In addition, the maximum emission ranged from 540 to 692 nm.

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