Giovanni Ferrara, T. Jin, M. Akhtaruzzaman
Apr 11, 2012
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Tetrahedron Letters
Abstract
Abstract A facile, efficient, and general synthetic method for iodo-substituted benzo[ b ]naphtho[2,1- d ]thiophenes has been developed via a cascade cyclization of thioanisole-substituted aryldiynes using iodine. A new donor–π linker–acceptor (D–π–A) organic dye, G1 , with the benzo[ b ]naphtho[2,1- d ]thiophene moiety as an electron donor has been synthesized, and the performance of dye-sensitized solar cell based on G1 has been investigated.