Core-extended rylene dyesviathiophene annulation†‡ Yan Li,a Wei Xu,a Simone Di Motta,bc Fabrizia Negri,*bc Daoben Zhua and Zhaohui Wang*a Author affiliations * Corresponding authors a Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R. China E-mail: wangzhaohui@iccas.ac.cn b Dipartimento di Chimica ‘G. Ciamician’, Università di Bologna, via F. Selmi, 2, 40126 Bologna, Italy E-mail: fabrizia.negri@unibo.it c INSTM, UdR Bologna, Italy Abstract Annulation of thiophenes directly into the bay regions of rylene dyes through effective Stille coupling and subsequent ring-fusion under Scholl conditions leads to core-extended rylene tetracarboxylic diimides with interesting electro-optical properties. This article is part of the themed collection: Aromaticity You have access to this article Please wait while we load your content... Something went wrong. Try again?