New organic dyes that contain variable lengths of conjugation featuring alternating thiophene and fluorene segments have been synthesized and efficient nano-crystalline TiO2 based dye-sensitized solar cells were fabricated using these molecules as light-harvesting sensitizers.

There are two independent molecules in the asymmetric unit of the title compound, C9H6N2S, which is an inter-mediate compound of a cardiovascular drug. The two molecules are nearly planar, displaying dihedral angles of 3.5 (2) and 5.7 (2)° between the thiophene ring and the malononitrile moiety. In the crystal, C-H⋯N inter-actions lead to the formation of a sheet structure that packs in a paral...

The first example of a regioselective β-arylation of benzo[b]thiophenes and thiophenes at room temperature with aryl iodides as coupling partners is reported. This methodology stands out for its operational simplicity: no prefunctionalization of either starting material is required, the reaction is insensitive to air and moisture, and it proceeds at room temperature. The mild conditions afford ...

Diarylethene derivatives with oxidized thiophene rings shift their absorption band to a shorter wavelength in the UV region upon photocyclization; no color change was observed during the photochromic reaction, and the invisible photochromism is advantageous for devices used under room light.

A new lactam acceptor unit, [7,7'-bidithieno[3,2-b:2',3'-d]pyridine]-5,5'(4H,4'H)-dione (BDTP), was developed. A D-A copolymer PThBDTP using BDTP as the acceptor unit and thiophene as the donor unit was synthesized. PThBDTP:PC71BM solar cells gave a decent PCE of 9.13% with a V(oc) of 0.96 V. PThBDTP is one of the few D-A copolymers with PCEs of over 9%.

We report the synthesis and comprehensive characterization of a series (oligo)thiophene-bridged (bis)phenanthroline ligands. The complexation behavior ditopic ligands with Cu(I) was explored by high-resolution ESI mass spectrometry, UV-vis spectroscopy, electrochemistry. Whereas ligands, in which phenanthrolines are bridged smaller (oligo)thiophene units, provided mainly mononuclear complexes, ...

Two new pyrene-cored covalent organic polymers (COPs), CK-COP-1 and CK-COP-2, were synthesized via the one-step polymerization of two thiophene-based isomers, 1,3,6,8-tetra(thiophene-2-yl) pyrene (L1 ) and 1,3,6,8-tetra(thiophene-3-yl) pyrene (L2 ). The resulting pyrene-cored COPs exhibit rather different surface areas of 54 m2 g-1 and 615 m2g-1 for CK-COP-1 and CK-COP-2, respectively. The CO2 ...

Our previous work resulted in the isolation of mutant strains of Escherichia coli K-12 which were able to oxidize furans and thiophenes as a result of mutations in several novel genes. Some of the genes involved in thiophene oxidation were cloned into the multicopy vector pUC19. The plasmid pKA10 carries a 3.8-kb chromosomal fragment which encodes a previously undiscovered gene involved in thio...

A class of new conjugated copolymers containing a donor (thiophene)-acceptor (2-pyran-4-ylidene-malononitrile) was synthesized via Stille coupling polymerization. The resulting copolymers were characterized by 1H NMR, elemental analysis, GPC, TGA, and DSC. UV-vis spectra indicated that the increase in the content of the thiophene units increased the interaction between the polymer main chains t...

In the title compound, C(31)H(22)ClNO(2)S(2), the five-membered pyrrolidine ring, which exhibits an envelope conformation, makes a dihedral angle of 87.4 (2)° with the acenaphthyl-ene ring system. The crystal structure is stabilized by π-π inter-actions [centroid-centroid distance = 3.869 (2) Å]. A C atom and the S atom of the thiophene ring are disordered over two positions with refined occupa...