Donor-sigma-acceptor molecules

REVIEW OF THE ORGANIC RECTIFIER PROJECT LANGMinR-BLODGETT FILMS OF DONOR- SIGMA-ACCEPTOR MOLECULES... 

UE began with Aviram and Ratner s 1973 proposal for a molecular rectifier this is the third rectification process [79]. An Aviram-Ratner rectifier has donor and acceptor groups in one molecule, separated by an insulating bridge of sigma... 

Figure 2 shows the structures of the bifunctional model systems l(n), (n=4,6,8,10,12), investigatedThe synthesis of these systems and a discussion of their electrochemical properties as well as of their electronic absorption and emission spectra have been given elsewhere (Oevering et al., 1987). These molecules contain a 1, 4-dimethoxynaphthalene unit as the photoexcitable electron donor (E./2 =+1.1 V vs. see in acetonitrile) and a 1,1-dicyano-vinyl moiety as a moderately powerful electron acceptor (Ev=-. l V) separated by an array of at least n C-C sigma-bonds. The centre-to-centre separation (Rc) and the edge-to-... 

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