Hydrazones Possessing a Phenyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinoline Moiety as Hole Transporting Materials

Summary.  Hydrazones containing 1-phenyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinoline units were synthesized starting from diphenylamine. These compounds were found to constitute novel hole transporting materials and were characterized by the time of flight method. The hole drift mobility in these compounds exceeds 10⁻⁶ cm² V⁻¹ s⁻¹ at an electric field of 10⁶ V cm⁻¹.     

Conjugated Polymers as Hole Transporting Materials for Solar Cells

In principle, conjugated polymers can work as electron donors and thus as low-cost p-type organic semiconductors to transport holes in photovoltaic devices. With the booming interests in high-efficiency and low-cost solar cells to tackle global climate change and energy shortage, hole transporting materials(HTMs) based on conjugated polymers have received increasing attention in the past decade. In this perspective, recent advances in HTMs for a range of photovoltaic devices including dye-sensitized solar cells(DSSCs), perovskite solar cells(PSCs),and silicon(Si)/organic heterojunction solar cells(HSCs) are summarized and perspectives on their future development are also presented.     

Metallated Macrocyclic Derivatives as a Hole – Transporting Materials for Perovskite Solar Cells

Spiro‐OMeTAD is widely used as thehole‐transporting material (HTM) in perovskite solar cells (PSC), which extracts positive charges and protects the perovskite materials from metal electrode, setting a new world‐record efficiency of more than 20 %. Spiro‐OMeTAD layer engross moisture leading to the degradation of perovskite, and therefore, has poor air stability. It is also expensive therefore limiting scale‐up, so macrocyclic metal complex derivatives (MMDs) could be a suitable replacement. Our review covers low‐cost, high yield hydrophobic materials with minimal steps required for synthesis of efficient HTMs for planar/mesostructured PSCs. The MMDs based devices demonstrated PCEs around 19 % and showed stability for a longer duration, indicating that MMDs are a promising alternative to spiro‐OMeTAD and also easy to scale‐up via solution approach. Additionally, this review describes how optical and electrical properties of MMDs change with chemical structure, allowing for the design of novel hole‐mobility materials to achieve negligible hysteresis and act as effective functional barriers against moisture which results in a significant increase in the stability of the device. We provide an overview of the apt green‐synthesis, characterization, stability and implementation of the various classes of macrocyclic metal complex derivatives as HTM for photovoltaic applications.     

Emerging of Inorganic Hole Transporting Materials For Perovskite Solar Cells

Hole transporting material (HTM) is a significant component to achieve the high performance perovskite solar cells (PSCs). Over the years, inorganic, organic and hybrid (organic‐inorganic) material based HTMs have been developed and investigated successfully. Today, perovskite solar cells achieved the efficiency of 22.1 % with with 2,2’,7,7’‐tetrakis(N,N‐di‐p‐methoxyphenyl‐amine) 9,9‐spirobifluorene (spiro‐OMeTAD) as HTM. Nevertheless, synthesis and cost of organic HTMs is a major challenging issue and therefore alternative materials are required. From the past few years, inorganic HTMs showed large improvement in power conversion efficiency (PCE) and stability. Recently CuO_x reached the PCE of 19.0% with better stability. These developments affirms that inorganic HTMs are better alternativesto the organic HTMs for next generation PSCs. In this report, we mainly focussed on the recent advances of inorganic and hybrid HTMs for PSCs and highlighted the efficiency and stability of PSCs improved by changing metal oxides as HTMs. Consequently, we expect that energy levels of these inorganic HTMs matches very well with the valence band of perovskites and improved efficiency helps in future practical deployment of low cost PSCs.     

Hole/Electron Transporting Materials for Nonfullerene Organic Solar Cells

Nonfullerene acceptor based organic solar cells (NF-OSCs) have witnessed rapid progress over the past few years owing to the intensive research efforts on novel electron donor and nonfullerene acceptor (NFA) materials, interfacial engineering, and device processing techniques. Interfacial layers including electron transporting layers (ETL) and hole transporting layers (HTLs) are crucially important in the OSCs for facilitating electron and hole extraction from the photoactive blend to the respective electrodes. In this review, the lates progress in both ETLs and HTLs for the currently prevailing NF-OSCs are discussed, in which the ETLs are summarized from the categories of metal oxides, metal chelates, non-conjugated electrolytes and conjugated electrolytes, and the HTLs are summarized from the categories of inorganic and organic materials. In addition, some bifunctional interlayer materials served as both ETLs and HTLs are also introduced. Finally, the prospects of ETL/HTL materials for NF-OSCs are provided.     

Green-solvent Processable Dopant-free Hole Transporting Materials for Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells

The commercialization of perovskite solar cells (PVSCs) urgently requires the development of green-solvent processable dopant-free hole transporting materials (HTMs). However, strong intermolecular interactions that ensure high hole mobility always compromise the solubility and film-forming ability in green solvents. Herein, we show a simple but effective design strategy to solve this trade-off, that is, constructing star-shaped D-A-D structure. The resulting HTMs (BTP1-2) can be processed by green solvent of 2-methylanisole (2MA), a kind of food additive, and show high hole mobility and multiple defect passivation effects. An impressive efficiency of 24.34 % has been achieved for 2MA-processed BTP1 based inverted PVSCs, the highest value for green-solvent processable HTMs so far. Moreover, it is manifested that the charge separation of D-A type HTMs at the photoinduced excited state can help to passivate the defects of perovskites, indicating a new HTM design insight.     

钙钛矿太阳能电池中小分子空穴传输材料的研究进展

有机-无机钙钛矿太阳能电池(PSCs)从2009年低于5%的能量转换效率到现在经过认证的超过22%的效率,成为科研热点和最有希望商业化的新型太阳能电池。在高性能的PSCs中,空穴传输材料是关键的一环,起到从钙钛矿活性层材料到对电极有效抽取和传输空穴的作用。本文在现有研究成果的基础上,对有机分子空穴传输材料在PSC中的应用进行总结,并强调分子材料结构对PSC器件性能(效率和稳定性)的影响。     

Dendritic-Like Molecules Built on a Pillar[5]arene Core as Hole Transporting Materials for Perovskite Solar Cells

Multi-branched molecules have recently demonstrated interesting behaviour as charge-transporting materials within the fields of perovskite solar cells (PSCs). For this reason, extended triarylamine dendrons have been grafted onto a pillar[5]arene core to generate dendrimer-like compounds, which have been used as hole-transporting materials (HTMs) for PSCs. The performances of the solar cells containing these novel compounds have been extensively investigated. Interestingly, a positive dendritic effect has been evidenced as the hole transporting properties are improved when going from the first to the second-generation compound. The stability of the devices based on the best performing pillar[5]arene material has been also evaluated in a high-throughput ageing setup for 500 h at high temperature. When compared to reference devices prepared from spiro-OMeTAD, the behaviour is similar. An analysis of the economic advantages arising from the use of the pillar[5]arene-based material revealed however that our pillar[5]arene-based material is cheaper than the reference.     

Synthesis of New Branched Hydrazones as Potential Hole-transporting Materials

A new class of branched hydrazones has been prepared by the reaction of N-2,3-epoxypropylated N-phenylhydrazones containing photoconductive groups with 2,5-dimercapto-1,3,4-thiadiazole in the presence of the catalyst triethylamine.     

Economical and Environmentally Friendly Organic hydrazone Derivatives Characterized by a Heteroaromatic Core as Potential Hole Transporting Materials in Perovskite Solar Cells

A series of organic electron-rich π-bridged symmetric hydrazones, composed of two donor moieties connected through a thiophene- or a pyrrole-based π-spacer, has been synthesized as a suitable alternative to 2,2’,7,7’-tetrakis[N,N-di(4-methoxyphenyl)amino]-9,9’-spirobifluorene ( Spiro-OMeTAD ), considered the benchmark hole transporting material (HTM) in perovskite solar cells (PSCs). The cheap synthetic protocol is suitable for potential large-scale production. All the compounds were characterized, showing good energy levels alignments with the perovskite and very close energy levels to the Spiro-OMeTAD . Furthermore, computational analysis confirmed the electrochemical trend observed. The costs of synthesis were estimated, as well as the produced waste to synthesise the final HTMs, underlining the low impact of these compounds on the environment with the respect to Spiro-OMeTAD . Overall, the relevant electrochemical properties and the low cost of the synthetic approaches allow these compounds to be a greener and easy-to-synthesize alternative to the Spiro-OMeTAD for industrial development of PSCs.     

Hydrazones as analytical reagents: a review

Applications of hydrazones in inorganic analysis since 1950 are reviewed.     

Star‐Shaped Molecules as Dopant‐Free Hole Transporting Materials for Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells: Multiscale Simulation

On the reported TCP‐OH (See Scheme 1), other two star‐shaped molecules are theoretically designed by replacement of side group of TCP‐OH by N,N‐di(4‐methoxyphenyl)aniline for TPAP‐OH and oxygen‐bridged triarylamine for TBOPP‐OH . The core group, phenol, is kept in three molecules. Their potential to be hole transport material in perovskite solar cells without dopants is evaluated by multiscale simulations. The properties of isolated molecules are estimated by the frontier molecular orbital, absorption spectrum, and hole mobility. After that, the HTM@CH₃NH₃PbI₃ adsorbed system is studied to consider the influence of adsorption on HTM performance. Besides the primary judgment, the glass transition temperature is also simulated to determine the stability of amorphous film. Not only the chemical stability is evaluated but also the amorphous film stability is considered. The latter is almost neglected in previous theoretical studies to evaluate the properties of HTMs. The performance of a designed molecule is evaluated from both the isolated molecules and HTM@CH₃NH₃PbI₃ adsorbed system including aforementioned items, which is favorable to build reliable structure‐property relationship.     

Organic Dyes Containing a 1,3‐indandione Moiety as Light Harvesting Materials

Organic dipolar compounds containing a 1,3‐indandione‐5,6‐dicarboxylic acid moiety as an electron acceptor group were examined for the feasibility of using as the light harvesting material in dye‐sensitized solar cells. Two compounds with triphenylamine donor moieties were synthesized by attaching it to 1,3‐indandione‐5,6‐dicarboxylic acid. The device made with these simple dyes achieved a quantum yield up to 2.5 %, which is comparable to the widely used dye made with cyanoacrylic acid. The spectroscopic properties of these compounds were analysed with the aid of theoretical models according to the time‐dependent density functional theory.     

D-π-A-π-D型非掺杂小分子空穴传输材料的合成及其在反向钙钛矿太阳能电池中的应用

设计合成了三种以（甲氧基）三苯胺为给体（Donor,D）,苯环为共轭π桥,羰基（或双氰基乙烯基）为受体（Acceptor,A）的D-π-A-π-D型有机小分子空穴传输材料1-T、1-OT和1-OTCN.对三个化合物的热稳定性、光物理以及电化学性质进行表征,并将它们作为空穴传输材料运用至钙钛矿太阳能电池中,研究其光伏特性.实验结果表明,通过引入具有不同给（吸）电子能力的基团,可对材料的光电性质进行有效调控.基于小分子空穴传输材料1-T、1-OT和1-OTCN的非掺杂反向钙钛矿太阳能电池器件光电转化效率（PCE）分别为13.0%、14.4%以及16.8%.其中,基于甲氧基和双氰基修饰的1-OTCN电池器件,由于空穴传输层与钙钛矿界面发生更有效的电荷跃迁和收集,电荷复合较少,因此器件性能最佳,1-OTCN的疏水性质使得其对应器件效率和水氧稳定性均优于常用空穴传输材料PEDOT：PSS（PCE：13.0%）.     

空穴传输材料三芳胺衍生物的合成及性质研究

以二芳胺和芳碘体系为原料,经乌尔曼反应制备了一系列三芳胺衍生物,经NMR,IR,MS等表征了其结构,通过示差扫描量热法(DSC)测定了其玻璃化转变温度,并利用循环伏安法结合紫外可见光谱测定了其HOMO能级和LUMO能级.     

Methanetricarboxylates as key reagents for the simple preparation of heteroarylcarboxamides with potential biological activity. Part 1 reaction of methanetricarboxylates with indoline and 1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinoline

The reaction of methanetricarboxylates 2a,b with indoline as well as 1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinoline yields tricyclic 4-hydroxy-2(1H)-quinolones with an ester group in position 3 ( 3, 8a,b) . These heterocyclic esters condense with primary aliphatic, aromatic, and heteroaromatic amines to give the corresponding amides 5a-e and 10a-t.     

Ruthenium-catalyzed enantioselective carbon-carbon bond forming reaction via allenylidene-ene process: synthetic approach to chiral heterocycles such as chromane, thiochromane, and 1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinoline derivatives

Our previously disclosed ruthenium-catalyzed carbon-carbon bond forming reactions between propargylic alcohols and alkenes via an allenylidene-ene type pathway have been successfully applied to an enantioselective intramolecular cyclization for a variety of chiral heterocycles such as chromane, thiochromane, and 1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinoline derivatives (up to 99% ee) by use of a suitable optically active diruthenium complex as a catalyst. The methodology described in this paper becomes a novel synthetic approach to chiral heterocycles, the structures of which are widely found in many natural and biologically active compounds.     

Lewis acid catalyzed reaction of arylvinylidenecyclopropanes with ethyl (arylimino)acetates: a facile synthetic protocol for pyrrolidine and 1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinoline derivatives

[reaction: see text] A number of pyrrolidine and 1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinoline derivatives are prepared selectively in moderate to good yields by the reaction of arylvinylidenecyclopropanes 1 with ethyl (arylimino)acetates 2 in the presence of Lewis acid depending on the electronic nature both of 2 and R1 or R2 aromatic groups of 1.     

含三苯胺的1,8-萘酰亚胺衍生物的合成及光谱和电化学性能研究

通过Suzuki偶联反应合成了一系列含三苯胺的1,8-萘酰亚胺衍生物，并进行了表征及光谱和电化学性能研究。研究表明该类化合物的荧光波长在584~610nm，位于橙色区。三苯胺的引入降低了化合物的HOMO值，有利于空穴的注入。     

Cyclic Naphthalene Diimide with a Ferrocene Moiety as a Redox-Active Tetraplex-DNA Ligand

Cyclic naphthalene diimides (cNDIs), with a ferrocene moiety (cFNDs) and different linker lengths between the ferrocene and cNDI moieties, were designed and synthesized as redox-active, tetraplex-DNA ligands. Intramolecular stacking was observed between ferrocene and the NDI planes, which could affect the binding properties for G-quadruplexes. Interestingly, the circular dichroism spectrum of one of these compounds clearly shows new Cotton effects around 320–380 and 240 nm, which can be considered a direct evidence of intramolecular stacking of ferrocene and the NDI. Regarding recognition of hybrid G-quadruplexes, the less rigid structures (longer linkers) show higher binding affinity (10⁶ m ⁻¹ order of magnitude). All new compounds show higher selectivity for G4 during electrochemical detection than noncyclic FND derivatives, which further identifies the redox-active potentiality of the cFNDs. Two of the three compounds tested even show preferential inhibition of cell growth in cancer cells over normal cells in a low concentration range, highlighting the potential for bioapplications of these cFNDs.