Synthesis 2015; 47(24): 3823-3845
DOI: 10.1055/s-0035-1560346
review
© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York

C–H Bond Transformations Leading to the Synthesis of Organic Functional Materials

Yoichiro Kuninobu*
a   Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan   Email: kuninobu@mol.f.u-tokyo.ac.jp
b   CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
,
Shunsuke Sueki
a   Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan   Email: kuninobu@mol.f.u-tokyo.ac.jp
b   CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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Publication History

Received: 23 July 2015

Accepted after revision: 10 August 2015

Publication Date:
24 September 2015 (online)


Abstract

In this review, transition-metal-catalyzed or -mediated C–H transformations leading to the synthesis of organic functional materials, such as oligomers, polymers, and π-conjugated molecules, are summarized.

1 Introduction

2 Oligomers and Polymers

2.1 Synthesis of Oligomers and Polymers

2.2 Chemical Modification of Polymers

3 π-Conjugated Molecules

3.1 Indenes and Fluorenes

3.2 Acenes

3.3 Triphenylenes

3.4 Chemical Modification of Perylene Diimides

3.5 Nanographenes

3.6 Condensed Polycyclic π-Conjugated Molecules with Five-Membered Heteroaromatic Rings

3.7 π-Conjugated Molecules with Nitrogen-Containing Six-Membered Heteroaromatics

3.8 Porphyrins

3.9 Miscellaneous (π-Conjugated Molecules)

4 Miscellaneous (Excluding Polymers and π-Conjugated Molecules)

5 Outlook and Conclusions