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  • A new type of soluble pentacene precursor for organic thin-film transistors.

A new type of soluble pentacene precursor for organic thin-film transistors.

Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) (2007-02-28)
Kew-Yu Chen, Hsing-Hung Hsieh, Chung-Chih Wu, Jiunn-Jye Hwang, Tahsin J Chow
ABSTRACT

A new type of soluble pentacene precursor is synthesized, which extrudes a unit of CO upon heating at 150 degrees C, to produce pentacene in nearly quantitative yield.