Development of convenient synthesis of multi-substituted conjugated aromatic compounds by means of carbon-hydrogen and carbon-oxygen bonds cleavage

在本研究中，我们利用钌催化苯乙酮和苊烯酮的碳氢键区域选择性功能化，开发了方便合成各种苊类衍生物的新条目，如五苯、蒽、蒎烯和二苯并蒽。我们的芳香烃合成方法可以应用于各种芳香酮与芳基硼酸盐和/或烯烃的组合。对合成的芳烃进行了有机场效应晶体管（OFET）性能测试。由某些产品制备的OFET具有中等的空穴迁移率。

In this study, we developed new entries of convenient syntheses of various acene derivatives such as pentacenes, anthracenes, picenes, and dibenzoanthracenes by means of ruthenium-catalyzed regioselective functionalization of carbon-hydrogen bonds in aromatic ketones including acetophenones and acenequinones. Our synthetic procedures of acenes can be applied to a variety of combination of aromatic ketones with arylboronates and/or alkenes. The organic field effect transistor(OFET) properties of the synthesized acenes were measured. The OFET fabricated from some of the products gave moderate hole mobility.