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The development of novel building blocks with sp3-hybridized-carbon-free conjugated skeletons is important to further advance and enrich nonfullerene acceptors (NFAs), but this remains a challenge due to the lack of strategies to effectively modulate the aggregation behavior of resulting NFAs. Herein, two novel nitrogen-bridged octacyclic ladder-type heteroarenes end-capped with thiophene rings (BTPS) or selenophene rings (BTPSe) are designed and synthesized as the donor cores for constructing NFAs (MQX-2 and MQX-4). It is found that replacing the sulfur atoms (MQX-2) at the outer positions of the heteroarene core with selenium atoms (MQX-4) can effectively modulate the molecular packing mode of the NFAs. The incorporation of selenium atoms induces stronger O···Se noncovalent interaction than O···S, thus promoting the formation of mixed H/J-type aggregates in MQX-4. Benefiting from more electron hopping channels, MQX-4 exhibits higher electron transport (more than 1-fold enhancement) and photovoltaic properties compared to MQX-2, which forms only H-type aggregates. © 2023 SIOC, CAS, Shanghai, & WILEY-VCH GmbH.
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Chinese Journal of Chemistry
ISSN: 1001-604X
Year: 2023
Issue: 17
Volume: 41
Page: 2143-2150
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CAS Journal Grade:2
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