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Ambient‐stable field‐effect transistors based on dianthraceno[<jats:italic>a</jats:italic>,<jats:italic>e</jats:italic>]pentalene (<jats:bold>DAP</jats:bold>) have been fabricated, which exhibited excellent hole mobilities (up to 6.55 cm<jats:sup>2</jats:sup> V<jats:sup>−1</jats:sup> s<jats:sup>−1</jats:sup>). Thus, this study has shown that diaceno[<jats:italic>a</jats:italic>,<jats:italic>e</jats:italic>]pentalenes are stable even with an extraordinarily large π‐surface area, and may thus serve as excellent molecular platforms for further exploring high‐performance semiconducting materials.</jats:p>","journal":"Chemistry – A European Journal","year":2015,"id":605929,"datarank":0.6190701577567639,"base_score":4.127134385045092,"endowment":4.127134385045092,"self_citation_contribution":0.6190701577567639,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.6190701577567639,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":61,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":null,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":false,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":null,"fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":308940,"name":"Shengjie Xu","orcid":"0000-0003-2716-6230","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1555302,"name":"Weigang Zhu","orcid":null,"position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1555303,"name":"Xiaozhang Zhu","orcid":null,"position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1555305,"name":"Wenping Hu","orcid":null,"position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1555306,"name":"Zhibo Li","orcid":null,"position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":842303,"name":"Zhaohui Wang","orcid":"0000-0003-4357-9780","position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":373473,"name":"Chunming Liu","orcid":"0000-0002-3913-4474","position":0,"is_corresponding":false}],"reference_count":0,"raw_metadata":{"has_enrichment":true,"resolved":true,"title":"Diaceno[<i>a</i>,<i>e</i>]pentalenes: An Excellent Molecular Platform for High‐Performance Organic Semiconductors","abstract":"<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Three diaceno[<jats:italic>a</jats:italic>,<jats:italic>e</jats:italic>]pentalene analogues with pendant sterically bulky di‐<jats:italic>tert</jats:italic>‐butylphenyl groups have been designed and synthesized. 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