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Würthner Group: Organic Materials and Nanosystems Chemistry

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Publications

2024[ to top ]
  • A highly fluorescent bora[6]helicene exhibiting circularly polarized light emission. Schnitzlein, Matthias; Shoyama, Kazutaka; Würthner, Frank. In Chem. Sci., 15(8), pp. 2984–2989. 2024.
  • High Sensitivity and Ultra‐Broad‐Range NH3 Sensor Arrays by Precise Control of Step Defects on The Surface of Cl2‐Ndi Single Crystals. Lu, Bin; Stolte, Matthias; Liu, Dong; Zhang, Xiaojing; Zhao, Lihui; Tian, Liehao; Frisbie, C. Daniel; Würthner, Frank; Tao, Xutang; He, Tao. In Adv. Sci. 2024.
  • Mutual induced fit transition structure stabilization of corannulene’s bowl-to-bowl inversion in a perylene bisimide cyclophane. Weh, Manuel; Kroeger, Asja A.; Anhalt, Olga; Karton, Amir; Würthner, Frank. In Chem. Sci., 15(2), pp. 609–617. 2024.
2023[ to top ]
  • Unveiling the intersystem crossing dynamics in N-annulated perylene bisimides. Sunny, Jeswin; Sebastian, Ebin; Sujilkumar, Suvarna; Würthner, Frank; Engels, Bernd; Hariharan, Mahesh. In Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., p. -. 2023.
  • Single-Molecule Ultrafast Fluorescence-Detected Pump-Probe Microscopy. Fersch, Daniel; Maly, Pavel; Rühe, Jessica; Lisinetskii, Victor; Hensen, Matthias; Würthner, Frank; Brixner, Tobias. In The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 14(21), pp. 4923–4932. 2023.
  • π-Extended benzo[1,2:4,5]di[7]annulene bis(dicarboximide)s – a new class of non-alternant polycyclic aromatic dicarboximides. Spengler, Jonas; Zhu, Chongwei; Shoyama, Kazutaka; Würthner, Frank. In Chem. Sci., 14(39), pp. 10861–10866. 2023.
  • Naphthalimide-Fused Subphthalocyanines: Electron-Deficient Materials Prepared by Cascade Annulation. Labella, Jorge; Shoyama, Kazutaka; Guzman, David; Schembri, Tim; Stolte, Matthias; Torres, Tomas; Würthner, Frank. In ACS Materials Letters, pp. 543–548. 2023.
  • Concentration-, Temperature- and Solvent-Dependent Self-Assembly: Merocyanine Dimerization as a Showcase Example for Obtaining Reliable Thermodynamic Data. Vonhausen, Yvonne; Würthner, Frank. In Chemistry - A European Journal, 29(37). 2023.
  • Donor–acceptor complex formation by social self-sorting of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and perylene bisimides. Soldner, Simon; Anhalt, Olga; Sárosi, Menyhárt B.; Stolte, Matthias; Würthner, Frank. In Chem. Commun., 59(78), pp. 11656–11659. 2023.
  • C64 Nanographene Tetraimide - A Receptor for Phthalocyanines with Subnanomolar Affinity. Niyas, M. A.; Shoyama, Kazutaka; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 62(25). 2023.
  • Enantiopure J-Aggregate of Quaterrylene Bisimides for Strong Chiroptical NIR-Response. Mahlmeister, Bernhard; Schembri, Tim; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Shoyama, Kazutaka; Stolte, Matthias; Würthner, Frank. In J. Am. Chem. Soc., 145(24), pp. 13302–13311. 2023.
  • Playing Lego with perylene dyes. Dubey, Rajeev K.; Würthner, Frank. In Nat. Chem., 15(6), pp. 884–884. 2023.
  • Water-Soluble Cationic Perylene Diimide Dyes as Stable Photocatalysts for H2O2 Evolution. Gryszel, Maciej; Schlossarek, Tim; Würthner, Frank; Natali, Mirco; Glowacki, Eric Daniel. In ChemPhotoChem. 2023.
  • Synthesis and Properties of Achiral and Chiral Dipyrenoheteroles and Related Compounds. Malone, Ryan J.; Spengler, Jonas; Carmichael, Rachael A.; Ngo, Khoa; Würthner, Frank; Chalifoux, Wesley A. In Org. Lett., 25(1), pp. 226–230. 2023.
  • Folding-Induced Promotion of Proton-Coupled Electron Transfers via Proximal Base for Light-Driven Water Oxidation. Noll, Niklas; Groß, Tobias; Shoyama, Kazutaka; Beuerle, Florian; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 62(7). 2023.
  • Preferential molecular recognition of heterochiral guests within a cyclophane receptor. Weh, Manuel; Shoyama, Kazutaka; Würthner, Frank. In Nature Communications, 14(1). 2023.
  • Nitrogen-doped polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons by a one-pot Suzuki coupling/intramolecular SNAr reaction. Tian, Xiaoqi; Shoyama, Kazutaka; Würthner, Frank. In Chem. Sci., 14(2), pp. 284–290. 2023.
  • Chiroptical Properties of Planar Benzobisthiazole-Bridged Squaraine Dimers. Freytag, Emely; Kreimendahl, Lasse; Holzapfel, Marco; Petersen, Jens; Lackinger, Heiko; Stolte, Matthias; Würthner, Frank; Mitric, Roland; Lambert, Christoph. In J. Org. Chem., 88(15), pp. 10777–10788. 2023.
  • π-π Catalysis Made Asymmetric-Enantiomerization Catalysis Mediated by the Chiral π-System of a Perylene Bisimide Cyclophane. Weh, Manuel; Kroeger, Asja A.; Shoyama, Kazutaka; Grüne, Matthias; Karton, Amir; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 62(19). 2023.
  • Naphthalimide-Annulated [n]Helicenes: Red Circularly Polarized Light Emitters. Tian, Xiaoqi; Shoyama, Kazutaka; Mahlmeister, Bernhard; Brust, Felix; Stolte, Matthias; Würthner, Frank. In J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023.
  • Intersystem crossing of perylene bisimide neutral, radical anion, and dianion derivatives compared via ultrafast spectroelectrochemistry. Heitmüller, Julia; Fröhlich, Rebecca; Renner, Rebecca; Würthner, Frank; Brixner, Tobias. In Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 25(26), pp. 17214–17229. 2023.
  • Boron-, carbon-, and silicon-bridged 1,12-dihydroxy-perylene bisimides with tuned structural and optical properties. Nagler, Oliver; Shoyama, Kazutaka; Anhalt, Olga; Stolte, Matthias; Dubey, Rajeev K.; Xie, Zengqi; Würthner, Frank. In Org. Chem. Front., 10(22), pp. 5685–5697. 2023.
  • Controlling the Supramolecular Polymerization of Squaraine Dyes by a Molecular Chaperone Analogue. Kleine-Kleffmann, Lara; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Shoyama, Kazutaka; Wehner, Marius; Würthner, Frank. In J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023.
  • Growth of Merocyanine Dye J‐Aggregate Nanosheets by Living Supramolecular Polymerization. Kleine‐Kleffmann, Lara; Schulz, Alexander; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023.
2022[ to top ]
  • Steering the multiexciton generation in slip-stacked perylene dye array via exciton coupling. Hong, Yongseok; Rudolf, Maximilian; Kim, Munnyon; Kim, Juno; Schembri, Tim; Krause, Ana-Maria; Shoyama, Kazutaka; Bialas, David; Röhr, Merle I. S.; Joo, Taiha; Kim, Hyungjun; Kim, Dongho; Würthner, Frank. In Nat. Commun., 13. 2022.
  • Multilayer stacks of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Mahl, Magnus; Niyas, M. A.; Shoyama, Kazutaka; Würthner, Frank. In Nature Chemistry, 14(4), pp. 457–462. 2022.
  • Real-time Observation of Structural Dynamics Triggering Excimer Formation in a Perylene Bisimide Folda-dimer by Ultrafast Time-Domain Raman Spectroscopy. Hong, Yongseok; Kim, Woojae; Kim, Taeyeon; Kaufmann, Christina; Kim, Hyungjun; Würthner, Frank; Kim, Dongho. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022.
  • Energy transfer in supramolecular calix[4]arene-Perylene bisimide dye light harvesting building blocks: Resolving loss processes with simultaneous target analysis. van Stokkum, Ivo H.M.; Wohlmuth, Catharina; Würthner, Frank; Williams, René M. In Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology, 12, p. 100154. 2022.
  • Yellow Light-Emitting Highly Soluble Perylene Bisimide Dyes by Acetalization of Bay-Hydroxy Groups. Nagler, Oliver; Krause, Ana-Maria; Shoyama, Kazutaka; Stolte, Matthias; Dubey, Rajeev K.; Liu, Linlin; Xie, Zengqi; Würthner, Frank. In Org. Lett., 24(37), pp. 6839–6844. 2022.
  • Helically Twisted Nanoribbons Based on Emissive Near-Infrared Responsive Quaterrylene Bisimides. Mahlmeister, Bernhard; Mahl, Magnus; Reichelt, Helmut; Shoyama, Kazutaka; Stolte, Matthias; Würthner, Frank. In J. Am. Chem. Soc., 144(23), pp. 10507–10514. 2022.
  • Supramolecular Substructure of C60-Embedded Schwarzite. Zhu, Chongwei; Shoyama, Kazutaka; Niyas, M. A.; Würthner, Frank. In J. Am. Chem. Soc., 144(36), pp. 16282–16286. 2022.
  • Aggregation-Induced Dual Phosphorescence from (o-Bromophenyl)-Bis(2,6-Dimethylphenyl)Borane at Room Temperature. Wu, Zhu; Dinkelbach, Fabian; Kerner, Florian; Friedrich, Alexandra; Ji, Lei; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Würthner, Frank; Marian, Christel M.; Marder, Todd B. In Chem. Eur. J., 28(30). 2022.
  • Self-assembled Ru(bda) Coordination Oligomers as Efficient Catalysts for Visible Light-Driven Water Oxidation in Pure Water. Schlossarek, Tim; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Beuerle, Florian; Würthner, Frank. In Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 61(52). 2022.
  • Intramolecular Energy and Solvent-Dependent Chirality Transfer within a BINOL-Perylene Hetero-Cyclophane. Ouyang, Guanghui; Rühe, Jessica; Zhang, Yang; Lin, Mei-Jin; Liu, Minghua; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 61(31). 2022.
  • Supramolecular p/n-heterojunction of C60-functionalized bis(merocyanine) quadruple stack: A model system for charge carrier separation and recombination in organic solar cells. Bialas, David; Fennel, Franziska; Noll, Niklas; Holzapfel, Marco; Schmiedel, Alexander; Lambert, Christoph; Würthner, Frank. In Nat. Sci., 2(2). 2022.
  • Axially chiral bay-tetraarylated perylene bisimide dyes as non-fullerene acceptors in organic solar cells. Mahlmeister, Bernhard; Renner, Rebecca; Anhalt, Olga; Stolte, Matthias; Würthner, Frank. In J. Mater. Chem. C, 10(7), pp. 2581–2591. 2022.
  • Ultrafast Intersystem Crossing in Selenium-Annulated Perylene Bisimide. Sivanarayanan, Jibin; Sebastian, Ebin; Vinod, Kavya; Würthner, Frank; Hariharan, Mahesh. In J. Phys. Chem. C., 126(31), pp. 13319–13326. 2022.
  • pi-Extended Pleiadienes by [5+2] Annulation of 1-Boraphenalenes and ortho-Dihaloarenes. Schnitzlein, Matthias; Zhu, Chongwei; Shoyama, Kazutaka; Würthner, Frank. In Chemistry - A European Journal. 2022.
  • Ultrafast Symmetry-Breaking Charge Separation in a Perylene Bisimide Dimer Enabled by Vibronic Coupling and Breakdown of Adiabaticity. Hong, Yongseok; Schlosser, Felix; Kim, Woojae; Würthner, Frank; Kim, Dongho. In J. Am. Chem. Soc., 144(34), pp. 15539–15548. 2022.
  • 12b,24b-Diborahexabenzo[a,c,fg,l,n,qr]pentacene: A Low-LUMO Boron-Doped Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon. Mützel, Carina; Farrell, Jeffrey M.; Shoyama, Kazutaka; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022.
  • Phenol-Functionalized Perylene Bisimides as Amine-Free Electron Transporting Interlayers for Stable Nonfullerene Organic Solar Cells. Wen, Xinbo; Zhang, Yu; Xie, Guojing; Rausch, Rodger; Tang, Ningning; Zheng, Nan; Liu, Linlin; Würthner, Frank; Xie, Zengqi. In Adv. Funct. Mater., 32(17), p. 2111706. 2022.
  • Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Based on Silandiol-Bay-Bridged Perylene Bisimides. Brust, Felix; Nagler, Oliver; Shoyama, Kazutaka; Stolte, Matthias; Würthner, Frank. In Adv. Optical Mater., 11(5). 2022.
  • Self-Assembly of a Zinc Bacteriochlorophyll-d Analog with a Lipophilic Tertiary Amide Group in the 17-Substituent. Shoji, Sunao; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Würthner, Frank; Tamiaki, Hitoshi. In Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn., 95(7), pp. 1083–1085. 2022.
  • Tuning Exciton Coupling of Merocyanine Nucleoside Dimers by RNA, DNA and GNA Double Helix Conformations. Dietzsch, Julia; Bialas, David; Bandorf, Johannes; Würthner, Frank; Höbartner, Claudia. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022.
  • Axially chiral indolenine derived chromophore dimers and their chiroptical absorption and emission properties. Freytag, Emely; Holzapfel, Marco; Swain, Asim; Bringmann, Gerhard; Stolte, Matthias; Würthner, Frank; Lambert, Christoph. In Chem. Sci., 13(41), pp. 12229–12238. 2022.
  • Pure Boric Acid Does Not Show Room-Temperature Phosphorescence (RTP). Wu, Zhu; Roldao, Juan Carlos; Rauch, Florian; Friedrich, Alexandra; Ferger, Matthias; Würthner, Frank; Gierschner, Johannes; Marder, Todd B. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 61(15). 2022.
  • Enantioselective Recognition of Helicenes by a Tailored Chiral Benzo[ghi]perylene Trisimide pi-Scaffold. Teichmann, Ben; Krause, Ana-Maria; Lin, Mei-Jin; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 61(15). 2022.
  • Wavelength and Polarization Sensitive Synaptic Phototransistor Based on Organic n-type Semiconductor/Supramolecular J-Aggregate Heterostructure. Kim, Jin Hong; Stolte, Matthias; Würthner, Frank. In ACS Nano, 16(11), pp. 19523–19532. 2022.
  • Photon-Correlation Studies on Multichromophore Macrocycles of Perylene Dyes. Müller, Ulrich; Spenst, Peter; Kagerer, Philipp; Stolte, Matthias; Würthner, Frank; Pflaum, Jens. In Adv. Opt. Mater., 10(14), p. 2200234. 2022.
  • Macrocyclic Donor-Acceptor Dyads Composed of Oligothiophene Half-Cycles and Perylene Bisimides. Bold, Kevin; Stolte, Matthias; Shoyama, Kazutaka; Krause, Ana-Maria; Schmiedel, Alexander; Holzapfel, Marco; Lambert, Christoph; Würthner, Frank. In Chem. Eur. J., 28(30). 2022.
  • Fluorescence Enhancement by Supramolecular Sequestration of a C54-Nanographene Trisimide by Hexabenzocoronene. Pigulski, Bartłomiej; Shoyama, Kazutaka; Sun, Meng-Jia; Würthner, Frank. In J. Am. Chem. Soc., 144(13), pp. 5718–5722. 2022.
  • Substituent-dependent absorption and fluorescence properties of perylene bisimide radical anions and dianions. Renner, Rebecca; Stolte, Matthias; Heitmüller, Julia; Brixner, Tobias; Lambert, Christoph; Würthner, Frank. In Mater. Horiz., 9(1), pp. 350–359. 2022.
    Original data of the UV-Vis-NIR and fluorescence spectra: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.5849111
  • Enzyme-like water preorganization in a synthetic molecular cleft for homogeneous water oxidation catalysis. Noll, Niklas; Krause, Ana-Maria; Beuerle, Florian; Würthner, Frank. In Nature Catalysis, 5(10), pp. 867–877. 2022.
  • Supramolecularly Engineered Bulk-Heterojunction Solar Cells with Self-Assembled Non-Fullerene Nanographene Tetraimide Acceptors. Menekse, Kaan; Mahl, Magnus; Albert, Julius; Niyas, M. A.; Shoyama, Kazutaka; Stolte, Matthias; Würthner, Frank. In Solar RRL, 7(2), p. 2200895. 2022.
  • Excited states and spin–orbit coupling in chalcogen substituted perylene diimides and their radical anions. Mentzel, Paul; Holzapfel, Marco; Schmiedel, Alexander; Krummenacher, Ivo; Braunschweig, Holger; Wodyński, Artur; Kaupp, Martin; Würthner, Frank; Lambert, Christoph. In Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 24(42), pp. 26254–26268. 2022.
  • Peptide Backbone Directed Self-Assembly of Merocyanine Oligomers into Duplex Structures. Liu, Bin; Vonhausen, Yvonne; Schulz, Alexander; Höbartner, Claudia; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 61(21). 2022.
  • Boron-Locked Starazine - A Soluble and Fluorescent Analogue of Starphene. Feng, Yi; Zhou, Jiadong; Qiu, Honglin; Schnitzlein, Matthias; Hu, Jingtao; Liu, Linlin; Würthner, Frank; Xie, Zengqi. In Chem. Eur. J., 28(29). 2022.
  • Activating Organic Phosphorescence via Heavy Metal-π Interaction Induced Intersystem Crossing. Sun, Meng-Jia; Anhalt, Olga; Sárosi, Menyhárt B.; Stolte, Matthias; Würthner, Frank. In Adv. Mater., 34(51), p. 2207331. 2022.
  • A Covalent Organic Framework for Cooperative Water Oxidation. Karak, Suvendu; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Addicoat, Matthew A.; Kessler, Philipp; Moser, Simon; Beuerle, Florian; Würthner, Frank. In J. Am. Chem. Soc., 144(38), pp. 17661–17670. 2022.
2021[ to top ]
  • Solvent Effects in Supramolecular Chemistry: Linear Free Energy Relationships for Common Intermolecular Interactions. Würthner, Frank. In J. Org. Chem, 87(3), pp. 1602–1615. 2021.
  • Semitransparent Layers of Social Self-Sorting Merocyanine Dyes for Ultranarrow Bandwidth Organic Photodiodes. Schembri, Tim; Kim, Jin Hong; Liess, Andreas; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Stolte, Matthias; Würthner, Frank. In Advanced Optical Materials, 9(15), p. 2100213. 2021.
  • Switching resonance character within merocyanine stacks and its impact on excited-state dynamics. Kim, Taeyeon; Kang, Seongsoo; Kirchner, Eva; Bialas, David; Kim, Woojae; Würthner, Frank; Kim, Dongho. In Chem, 7(3), pp. 715–725. 2021.
  • Unusual Zig-Zag Effect in the Electrochemical Oxidation of Phenyl End-Capped a-Oligothiophenes. Bold, Kevin; Stolte, Matthias; Würthner, Frank. In Organic Materials, 03(02), pp. 119–127. 2021.
  • Surface-Promoted Evolution of Ru-bda Coordination Oligomers Boosts the Efficiency of Water Oxidation Molecular Anodes. Gil-Sepulcre, Marcos; Lindner, Joachim O.; Schindler, Dorothee; Velasco, Lucia; Moonshiram, Dooshaye; Rüdiger, Olaf; DeBeer, Serena; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Solano, Eduardo; Würthner, Frank; Llobet, Antoni. In J. Am. Chem. Soc., 143(30), pp. 11651–11661. 2021.
  • An Efficient Narrowband Near-Infrared at 1040nm Organic Photodetector Realized by Intermolecular Charge Transfer Mediated Coupling Based on a Squaraine Dye. Kim, Jin Hong; Liess, Andreas; Stolte, Matthias; Krause, Ana-Maria; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Zhong, Chuwei; Bialas, David; Spano, Frank; Würthner, Frank. In Adv. Mater., 33(26), p. 2100582. 2021.
  • Structure-Activity Relationship for Di- up to Tetranuclear Macrocyclic Ruthenium Catalysts in Homogeneous Water Oxidation. Schindler, Dorothee; Meza-Chincha, Ana-Lucia; Roth, Maximilian; Würthner, Frank. In Chemistry – A European Journal, 27(68), pp. 16938–16946. 2021.
  • Polymorphism in Squaraine Dye Aggregates by Self-Assembly Pathway Differentiation: Panchromatic Tubular Dye Nanorods versus J-Aggregate Nanosheets. Shen, Chia-An; Bialas, David; Hecht, Markus; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Sugiyasu, Kazunori; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 60(21), pp. 11949–11958. 2021.
  • Double J-Coupling Strategy for Near Infrared Emitters. Shen, Chia-An; Stolte, Matthias; Kim, Jin Hong; Rausch, Anja; Würthner, Frank. In J. Am. Chem. Soc., 143(31), pp. 11946–11950. 2021.
  • Coherent two-dimensional electronic spectroelectrochemistry. Heitmüller, Julia; Eckstein, Klaus; Renner, Rebecca; Stolte, Matthias; Hertel, Tobias; Würthner, Frank; Brixner, Tobias. In Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, p. 119567. 2021.
  • Deracemization of Carbohelicenes by a Chiral Perylene Bisimide Cyclophane Template Catalyst. Weh, Manuel; Rühe, Jessica; Herbert, Benedikt; Krause, Ana-Maria; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 60(28), pp. 15323–15327. 2021.
  • Nitronyl Nitroxide Bifunctionalized Electron-Poor Chromophores: Synthesis of Stable Dye Biradicals by Lewis Acid Promoted Desilylation. Rausch, Rodger; Krause, Ana-Maria; Krummenacher, Ivo; Braunschweig, Holger; Würthner, Frank. In J. Org. Chem., 86(3), pp. 2447–2457. 2021.
  • Charge-Delocalized State and Coherent Vibrational Dynamics in Rigid PBI H-Aggregates. Kang, Seongsoo; Kim, Taeyeon; Hong, Yongseok; Würthner, Frank; Kim, Dongho. In J. Am. Chem. Soc., 143(26), pp. 9825–9833. 2021.
  • Perspectives in Dye Chemistry: A Rational Approach toward Functional Materials by Understanding the Aggregate State. Bialas, David; Kirchner, Eva; Röhr, Merle I. S.; Würthner, Frank. In J. Am. Chem. Soc., 143(12), pp. 4500–4518. 2021.
  • Understanding the structural and charge transport property relationships for a variety of merocyanine single-crystals: a bottom up computational investigation. Gildemeister, Nora; Ricci, Gaetano; Böhner, Lukas; Neudörfl, Jörg M.; Hertel, Dirk; Würthner, Frank; Negri, Fabrizia; Meerholz, Klaus; Fazzi, Daniele. In J. Mater. Chem. C, 9(33), pp. 10851–10864. 2021.
  • Reversible fluorescence modulation through the photoisomerization of an azobenzene-bridged perylene bisimide cyclophane. Ouyang, Guanghui; Bialas, David; Würthner, Frank. In Org. Chem. Front., 8(7), pp. 1424–1430. 2021.
  • Folding-induced Fluorescence Enhancement in a Series of Merocyanine Hetero-Folda-Trimers. Schulz, Alexander; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 61(2). 2021.
  • Controlling Topography and Crystallinity of Melt Electrowritten Poly(e-Caprolactone) Fibers. Blum, Carina; Weichhold, Jan; Hochleitner, Gernot; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Würthner, Frank; Groll, Jürgen; Jungst, Tomasz. In 3D Printing and Additive Manufact., 8(5), pp. 315–321. 2021.
  • Slip-Stacked J-Aggregate Materials for Organic Solar Cells and Photodetectors. Kim, Jin Hong; Schembri, Tim; Bialas, David; Stolte, Matthias; Würthner, Frank. In Adv. Mater., p. 2104678. 2021.
  • Folding and fluorescence enhancement with strong odd–even effect for a series of merocyanine dye oligomers. Hu, Xiaobo; Schulz, Alexander; Lindner, Joachim O.; Grüne, Matthias; Bialas, David; Würthner, Frank. In Chem. Sci., 12(24), pp. 8342–8352. 2021.
  • Merocyanine Dyes with Extended Polymethine Chains by Simple Two-Step Condensation Sequence. Arjona-Esteban, Alhama; Rausch, Anja; Vysotsky, Myroslav O.; Würthner, Frank. In Synthesis, 53(02), pp. 318–325. 2021.
  • Two-step anti-cooperative self-assembly process into defined π-stacked dye oligomers: insights into aggregation-induced enhanced emission. Vonhausen, Yvonne; Lohr, Andreas; Stolte, Matthias; Würthner, Frank. In Chem. Sci., 12(37), pp. 12302–12314. 2021.
  • Site-specific chemical doping reveals electron atmospheres at the surfaces of organic semiconductor crystals. He, Tao; Stolte, Matthias; Wang, Yan; Renner, Rebecca; Ruden, P. Paul; Würthner, Frank; Frisbie, C. Daniel. In Nature Materials, 20(11), pp. 1532–1538. 2021.
  • Tuning phenoxyl-substituted diketopyrrolopyrroles from quinoidal to biradical ground states through (hetero-)aromatic linkers. Rausch, Rodger; Röhr, Merle I. S.; Schmidt, David; Krummenacher, Ivo; Braunschweig, Holger; Würthner, Frank. In Chem. Sci., 12(2), pp. 793–802. 2021.
  • PAHs Containing both Heptagon and Pentagon: Corannulene Extension by [5+2] Annulation. Schnitzlein, Matthias; Mützel, Carina; Shoyama, Kazutaka; Farrell, Jeffrey M.; Würthner, Frank. In Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2022(5). 2021.
  • Macrocyclic Donor-Acceptor Dyads Composed of a Perylene Bisimide Surrounded by Oligothiophene Bridges. Bold, Kevin; Stolte, Matthias; Shoyama, Kazutaka; Holzapfel, Marco; Schmiedel, Alexander; Lambert, Christoph; Würthner, Frank. In Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 2021.
  • Chiral Perylene Bisimide Dyes by Interlocked Arene Substituents in the Bay Area. Renner, Rebecca; Mahlmeister, Bernhard; Anhalt, Olga; Stolte, Matthias; Würthner, Frank. In Chemistry A European Journal, 27(46), pp. 11997–12006. 2021.
2020[ to top ]
  • Synthesis of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons by palladium-catalysed [3 + 3] annulation. Pigulski, Bartłomiej; Ximenis, Marta; Shoyama, Kazutaka; Würthner, Frank. In Org. Chem. Front., 7(19), pp. 2925–2930. 2020.
  • Quinoidal dicyanomethylene-endcapped cyclopentadithiophenes as vacuum-processable n-type semiconductors. Menekse, Kaan; Chen, Pengzhong; Mahlmeister, Bernhard; Anhalt, Olga; Kudzus, Astrid; Stolte, Matthias; Würthner, Frank. In J. Mater. Chem. C, 8(43), pp. 15303–15311. 2020.
  • Efficient Electrochemical Water Oxidation by a Trinuclear Ru(bda) Macrocycle Immobilized on Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotube Electrodes. Schindler, Dorothee; Gil-Sepulcre, Marcos; Lindner, Joachim O.; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Moonshiram, Dooshaye; Llobet, Antoni; Würthner, Frank. In Adv. Energy Mater., 10(43), p. 2002329. 2020.
  • Anion-Coordination-Assisted Assembly of Supramolecular Charge-Transfer Complexes Based on Tris(urea) Ligands. Zhang, Dan; Hou, Le-Kai; Zhang, Qiang; He, Jia-Wei; Feng, Hong-Jian; Würthner, Frank; Yang, Xiao-Juan; Wu, Biao. In Chem. Eur. J., 26(6), pp. 1414–1421. 2020.
  • A Calix[4]arene-Based Cyclic Dinuclear Ruthenium Complex for Light-Driven Catalytic Water Oxidation. Noll, Niklas; Würthner, Frank. In Chem. Eur. J., 27(1), pp. 444–450. 2020.
  • Tracking Structural Evolution during Symmetry-Breaking Charge Separation in Quadrupolar Perylene Bisimide with Time-Resolved Impulsive Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy. Kim, Woojae; Kim, Taeyeon; Kang, Seongsoo; Hong, Yongseok; Würthner, Frank; Kim, Dongho. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 59(22), pp. 8571–8578. 2020.
  • Self-assembled Möbius strips with controlled helicity. Ouyang, Guanghui; Ji, Lukang; Jiang, Yuqian; Würthner, Frank; Liu, Minghua. In Nat. Commun., 11(1). 2020.
  • Control of self-assembly pathways toward conglomerate and racemic supramolecular polymers. Wehner, Marius; Röhr, Merle Insa Silja; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Würthner, Frank. In Nat. Commun., 11(1). 2020.
  • Hydrogen bond-rigidified planar squaraine dye and its electronic and organic semiconductor properties. Maeda, Takeshi; Liess, Andreas; Kudzus, Astrid; Krause, Ana-Maria; Stolte, Matthias; Amitani, Hitoshi; Yagi, Shigeyuki; Fujiwara, Hideki; Würthner, Frank. In Chem. Commun., 56(68), pp. 9890–9893. 2020.
  • On the photophysical properties of IrIII, PtII, and PdII (phenylpyrazole) (phenyldipyrrin) complexes. Föller, Jelena; Friese, Daniel H.; Riese, Stefan; Kaminski, Jeremy M.; Metz, Simon; Schmidt, David; Würthner, Frank; Lambert, Christoph; Marian, Christel M. In Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 22(6), pp. 3217–3233. 2020.
  • Perylene Bisimide Cyclophanes: Structure–Property Relationships upon Variation of the Cavity Size. Rühe, Jessica; Bialas, David; Spenst, Peter; Krause, Ana-Maria; Würthner, Frank. In Organic Materials, 2, pp. 149–158. 2020.
  • Consecutive Charging of a Perylene Bisimide Dye by Multistep Low-Energy Solar-Light-Induced Electron Transfer Towards H 2 Evolution. Xu, Yucheng; Zheng, Jiaxin; Lindner, Joachim O.; Wen, Xinbo; Jiang, Nianqiang; Hu, Zhicheng; Liu, Linlin; Huang, Fei; Würthner, Frank; Xie, Zengqi. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 59(26), pp. 10363–10367. 2020.
  • Efficient Multiexciton State Generation in Charge-Transfer-Coupled Perylene Bisimide Dimers via Structural Control. Hong, Yongseok; Kim, Juno; Kim, Woojae; Kaufmann, Christina; Kim, Hyungjun; Würthner, Frank; Kim, Dongho. In J. Am. Chem. Soc., 142(17), pp. 7845–7857. 2020.
  • Supramolecularly Engineered J-Aggregates Based on Perylene Bisimide Dyes. Hecht, Markus; Würthner, Frank. In Accounts of Chemical Research. 2020.
  • Bowl-Shaped Naphthalimide-Annulated Corannulene as Nonfullerene Acceptor in Organic Solar Cells. Menekse, Kaan; Renner, Rebecca; Mahlmeister, Bernhard; Stolte, Matthias; Würthner, Frank. In Organic Materials, 02(03), pp. 229–234. 2020.
  • Base-Assisted Imidization: A Synthetic Method for the Introduction of Bulky Imide Substituents to Control Packing and Optical Properties of Naphthalene and Perylene Imides. Mahl, Magnus; Shoyama, Kazutaka; Krause, Ana-Maria; Schmidt, David; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 59(32), pp. 13401–13405. 2020.
  • [n]Helicene Diimides (n = 5, 6, and 7): Through-Bond versus Through-Space Conjugation. Saal, Fridolin; Zhang, Fangyuan; Holzapfel, Marco; Stolte, Matthias; Michail, Evripidis; Moos, Michael; Schmiedel, Alexander; Krause, Ana-Maria; Lambert, Christoph; Würthner, Frank; Ravat, Prince. In J. Am. Chem. Soc., 142(51), pp. 21298–21303. 2020.
  • Trapped Exciton and Large Birefringence in Cl2–NDI Revealed by Optical Spectroscopy. Pinteric, Marko; Roh, Seulki; Uykur, Ece; Hansen, Nis Hauke; Pflaum, Jens; Stolte, Matthias; Würthner, Frank; Dressel, Martin. In The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 124(32), pp. 17829–17835. 2020.
  • Effects of Photosensitizers and Reaction Media on Light-Driven Water Oxidation with Trinuclear Ruthenium Macrocycles. Meza-Chincha, Ana-Lucia; Schindler, Dorothee; Natali, Mirco; Würthner, Frank. In ChemPhotoChem. 2020.
  • Self-Sorting Supramolecular Polymerization: Helical and Lamellar Aggregates of Tetra-Bay-Acyloxy Perylene Bisimide. Hecht, Markus; Leowanawat, Pawaret; Gerlach, Tabea; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Stolte, Matthias; Lehmann, Matthias; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020.
  • Aggregation-Induced Emission (AIE): A Historical Perspective. Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 59(34), pp. 14192–14196. 2020.
  • Crystal Engineering of 1D Exciton Systems Composed of Single- and Double-Stranded Perylene Bisimide J-Aggregates. Stolte, Matthias; Hecht, Reinhard; Xie, Zengqi; Liu, Linlin; Kaufmann, Christina; Kudzus, Astrid; Schmidt, David; Würthner, Frank. In Adv. Opt. Mater., 8(18), p. 2000926. 2020.
  • Supramolecular polymerization through kinetic pathway control and living chain growth. Wehner, Marius; Würthner, Frank. In Nature Reviews Chemistry, 4, pp. 38–53. 2020.
  • 1-Mono- and 1,7-Disubstituted Perylene Bisimide Dyes with Voluminous Groups at Bay Positions: In Search for Highly Effective Solid-State Fluorescence Materials. Stolte, Matthias; Schembri, Tim; Süß, Jasmin; Schmidt, David; Krause, Ana-Maria; Vysotsky, Myroslav O.; Würthner, Frank. In Chem. Mater., 32(14), pp. 6222–6236. 2020.
  • Increased Electron Transport and Hole Blocking in an Aqueous Solution Processed Dye-Doped ZnO Cathode Interlayer for High Performance Organic Solar Cells. Luo, Yinqi; Fang, Shaomao; Zheng, Nan; Liu, Linlin; Würthner, Frank; Xie, Zengqi. In ACS Appl. Energy Mater., 3(2), pp. 1694–1701. 2020.
  • NIR-Absorbing pi-Extended Azulene: Non-Alternant Isomer of Terrylene Bisimide. Pigulski, Bartlomiej; Shoyama, Kazutaka; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020.
  • Naphthalene diimide-amino acid conjugates as novel fluorimetric and CD probes for differentiation between ds-DNA and ds-RNA. Weissenstein, Annike; Vysotsky, Myroslav O; Piantanida, Ivo; Würthner, Frank. In Beilstein J. Org. Chem., 16, pp. 2032–2045. 2020.
  • Chiroptical Properties of Indolenine Squaraines with a Stereogenic Center at Close Proximity. Selby, Joshua; Holzapfel, Marco; Lombe, Blaise Kimbadi; Schmidt, David; Krause, Ana-Maria; Würthner, Frank; Bringmann, Gerhard; Lambert, Christoph. In J. Org. chem., 85(19), pp. 12227–12242. 2020.
  • A Periodic System of Supramolecular Elements. Schmidt, Hans-Werner; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 59(23), pp. 8766–8775. 2020.
  • Persistent Room Temperature Phosphorescence from Triarylboranes: A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Study. Wu, Zhu; Nitsch, Jörn; Schuster, Julia; Friedrich, Alexandra; Edkins, Katharina; Loebnitz, Marcel; Dinkelbach, Fabian; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Würthner, Frank; Marian, Christel M.; Ji, Lei; Marder, Todd B. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020.
  • Modulation of the Self-Assembly of Amphiphiles in Water from Enthalpy- to Entropy-Driven by Enwrapping Substituents. Syamala, Pradeep P. N.; Würthner, Frank. In Chemistry A European Journal, 26(38), pp. 8426–8434. 2020.
  • Conformation and Aromaticity Switching in a Curved Non-Alternant sp2 Carbon Scaffold. Zhu, Chongwei; Shoyama, Kazutaka; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 59(48), pp. 21505–21509. 2020.
  • Unfolding multi-stranded perylene bisimide LC columns – a mesogen design for efficient nanoscale multilayer self-assembly. Lehmann, Matthias; Hecht, Markus; Herbst, Stefanie; Cui, Kang; Würthner, Frank. In Chem. Commun., 56(90), pp. 14015–14018. 2020.
  • Nanoscale Columnar Bundles Based on Multistranded Core-Shell Liquid Crystals of Perylene Bisimide J-Aggregate Donor-Acceptor Dyads for Photoconductivity Devices with Enhanced Performance Through Macroscopic Alignment. Hecht, Markus; Schlossarek, Tim; Ghosh, Samrat; Tsutsui, Yusuke; Schmiedel, Alexander; Holzapfel, Marco; Stolte, Matthias; Lambert, Christoph; Seki, Shu; Lehmann, Matthias; Würthner, Frank. In Appl. Nano Mater., 3(10), pp. 10234–10245. 2020.
  • Impact of substituents on molecular properties and catalytic activities of trinuclear Ru macrocycles in water oxidation. Meza-Chincha, Ana-Lucia; Lindner, Joachim O.; Schindler, Dorothee; Schmidt, David; Krause, Ana-Maria; Röhr, Merle I. S.; Mitrić, Roland; Würthner, Frank. In Chem. Sci., 11(29), pp. 7654–7664. 2020.
  • Efficient Electronic Coupling in Perylenediimide Multilayered Films on Indium Tin Oxide. Silva, Barbara P. G.; Tosco, Bruna; de Florio, Daniel Z.; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Würthner, Frank; Rey, José Fernando Q.; Brochsztain, Sergio. In J. Phys. Chem. C., 124(10), pp. 5541–5551. 2020.
  • Exciton Migration in Multistranded Perylene Bisimide J-Aggregates. Rehhagen, Chris; Stolte, Matthias; Herbst, Stefanie; Hecht, Markus; Lochbrunner, Stefan; Würthner, Frank; Fennel, Franziska. In J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 11(16), pp. 6612–6617. 2020.
  • Stepwise Folding and Self-Assembly of a Merocyanine Folda-Pentamer. Hu, Xiaobo; Lindner, Joachim; Würthner, Frank. In J. Am. Chem. Soc., 142(7), pp. 3321–3325. 2020.
  • NIR-emitting squaraine J-aggregate nanosheets. Shen, Chia-An; Würthner, Frank. In Chem. Commun., 56(68), pp. 9878–9881. 2020.
  • NIR-Absorbing π-Extended Azulene: Non-Alternant Isomer of Terrylene Bisimide. Pigulski, Bart\lomiej; Shoyama, Kazutaka; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020.
2019[ to top ]
  • Guest-mediated chirality transfer in the host–guest complexes of an atropisomeric perylene bisimide cyclophane host. Sapotta, Meike; Spenst, Peter; Saha-Möller, Chantu; Würthner, Frank. In Org. Chem. Front., 6, pp. 892–899. 2019.
  • fs–ps Exciton dynamics in a stretched tetraphenylsquaraine polymer. Schreck, Maximilian H.; Breitschwerdt, Lena; Marciniak, Henning; Holzapfel, Marco; Schmidt, David; Würthner, Frank; Lambert, Christoph. In Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 21(28), pp. 15346–15355. 2019.
  • Solvent-Modulated Charge-Transfer Resonance Enhancement in the Excimer State of a Bay-Substituted Perylene Bisimide Cyclophane. Kim, Woojae; Nowak-Król, Agnieszka; Hong, Yongseok; Schlosser, Felix; Würthner, Frank; Kim, Dongho. In J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 10(8), pp. 1919–1927. 2019.
  • Self‐Assembly of Bowl‐Shaped Naphthalimide‐Annulated Corannulene. Renner, Rebecca; Stolte, Matthias; Würthner, Frank. In ChemistryOpen, 9(1), pp. 32–39. 2019.
  • A Water-Soluble Perylene Bisimide Cyclophane as a Molecular Probe for the Recognition of Aromatic Alkaloids. Sapotta, Meike; Hofmann, Anja; Bialas, David; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 58, pp. 3516 –3520. 2019.
  • Anisotropic microfibres of a liquid-crystalline diketopyrrolopyrrole by self-assembly-assisted electrospinning. Hecht, Markus; Soberats, Bartolome; Zhu, Jian; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Agarwal, Seema; Greiner, Andreas; Würthner, Frank. In Nanoscale Horizons, 4, pp. 169–174. 2019.
  • Supramolecular Polymorphism in One-Dimensional Self-Assembly by Kinetic Pathway Control. Wehner, Marius; Röhr, Merle Insa Silja; Bühler, Michael; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Wagner, Wolfgang; Würthner, Frank. In J. Am. Chem. Soc., 141(14), pp. 6092–6107. 2019.
  • A Self-Assembl ed Unit Comprising 12 Squaraine Dyes Built Up from TwoStar-ShapedHexasquara inyl-Benzene Molecules. Schreck, Maximilian H.; Röhr, Merle I. S.; Clark, Timothy; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Würthner, Frank; Lambert, Christoph. In Cemistry - A European Journal, 25, pp. 2831–2839. 2019.
  • The origin of the solvent dependence of fluorescence quantum yields in dipolar merocyanine dyes. Hoche, Joscha; Schulz, Alexander; Dietrich, Lysanne Monika; Humeniuk, Alexander; Stolte, Matthias; Schmidt, David; Brixner, Tobias; Würthner, Frank; Mitric, Roland. In Chem. Sci., 10(48), pp. 11013–11022. 2019.
  • Synthesis of a Carbon Nanocone by Cascade Annulation. Shoyama, Kazutaka; Würthner, Frank. In J. Am. Chem. Soc., 141(33), pp. 13008–13012. 2019.
  • Photoconductive Core–Shell Liquid‐Crystals of a Perylene Bisimide J‐Aggregate Donor–Acceptor Dyad. Hecht, Markus; Schlossarek, Tim; Stolte, Matthias; Lehmann, Matthias; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 58, pp. 12979–12983. 2019.
  • Thermodynamic insights into the entropically driven self-assembly of amphiphilic dyes in water. Syamala, Pradeep P. N.; Soberats, Bartolome; Görl, Daniel; Gekle, Stephan; Würthner, Frank. In Chem. Sci., 10(40), pp. 9358–9366. 2019.
  • Essential States Model for Merocyanine Dye Stacks: BridgingElectronic and Optical Absorption Properties. Bialas, David; Chuwei, Zhong; Würthner, Frank; Spano, Frank C. In J. Phys. Chem. C., 123, pp. 18654–18664. 2019.
  • Enhanced Electron Transportation by Dye Doping in Very Low-Temperature (<130 °C)-Processed Sol–Gel ZnO toward Flexible Organic Solar Cells.. Wen, Xinbo; Fang, Shaomao; Xu, Yucheng; Zheng, Nan; Liu, Linlin; Xie, Zengqi; Würthner, Frank. In ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 11(37), pp. 34151–34157. 2019.
  • Resonance Raman study of the J-type aggregation process of a water soluble perylene bisimide. Alloa, Elisa; Grande, Vincenzo; Dilmurat, Rishat; Beljonne, David; Würthner, Frank; Hayes, Sophia C. In Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 21(33), pp. 18300–18309. 2019.
  • Supramolecular Block Copolymers by Seeded Living Polymerization of Perylene Bisimides. Wagner, Wolfgang; Wehner, Marius; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Würthner, Frank. In J. Am. Chem. Soc., 141(30), pp. 12044–12054. 2019.
  • Ultrafast coherent exciton dynamics in size-controlled perylene bisimide aggregates. Kang, Seongsoo; Kaufmann, Christina; Hong, Yongseok; Kim, Woojae; Nowak-Król, Agnieszka; Würthner, Frank; Kim, Dongho. In Struct. Dyn., 6, pp. 064501–1. 2019.
  • Impact of Molecular Shape on Supramolecular Copolymer Synthesis in Seeded Living Polymerization of Perylene Bisimides. Wagner, Wolfgang; Wehner, Marius; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Würthner, Frank. In CCS Chem., 1, pp. 598–613. 2019.
  • Protein‐like Enwrapped Perylene Bisimide Chromophore as a Bright Microcrystalline Emitter Material. Schmidt, David; Stolte, Matthias; Süß, Jasmin; Liess, Andreas; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 58(38), pp. 13385–13389. 2019.
  • Photoinduced Energy‐ and Electron‐Transfer Processes in a Side‐to‐Face RuII‐Porphyrin/Perylene‐bisimide Array. Amati, Agnes; Natali, Mirco; Indelli, Maria Teresa; Iengo, Elisabetta; Würthner, Frank. In Chem. Phys. Chem., 20(17), pp. 2195–2203. 2019.
  • A Highly Warped Heptagon-Containing sp² Carbon Scaffold via Vinylnaphthyl π-Extension. Farrell, Jeffrey M.; Grande, Vincenzo; Schmidt, David; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 58(46), pp. 16504 –16507. 2019.
  • Palladium-Catalyzed [3+2] Annulation of Naphthalimide Acceptors and Thiophene Donors. Shoyama, Kazutaka; Mahl, Magnus; M. A., Niyas; Ebert, Markus; Kachler, Valentin; Keck, Christoph; Würthner, Frank. In J. Org. Chem., 85(1), pp. 142–149. 2019.
  • 1,1′-Bi(2-naphthol-4,5-dicarboximide)s: blue emissive axially chiral scaffolds with aggregation-enhanced emission properties. Chen, Meng-Ting; Zhang, Yang; Vysotsky, Myroslav O.; Lindner, Joachim O.; Li, Meng-Hua; Lin, Mei-Jin; Würthner, Frank. In Org. Chem. Front., 6(22), pp. 3731–3740. 2019.
  • Tetrahydroxy‐Perylene Bisimide Embedded in a Zinc Oxide Thin Film as an Electron‐Transporting Layer for High‐Performance Non‐Fullerene Organic Solar Cells. Wen, Xinbo; Nowak‐Król, Agnieszka; Nagler, Oliver; Kraus, Felix; Zhu, Na; Zheng, Nan; Müller, Matthias; Schmidt, David; Xie, Zengqi; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 58, pp. 13051–13055. 2019.
  • Defined Merocyanine Dye Stacks from a Dimer up to an Octamer by Spacer-Encoded Self-Assembly Approach. Kirchner, Eva; Bialas, David; Fennel, Franziska; Grüne, Matthias; Würthner, Frank. In J. Am. Chem. Soc., 141(18), pp. 7428–7438. 2019.
  • Ealamines A–H, a Series of Naphthylisoquinolines with the Rare 7,8′-Coupling Site, from the Congolese Liana Ancistrocladus ealaensis, Targeting Pancreatic Cancer Cells. Tshitenge, Dieudonné Tshitenge; Bruhn, Torsten; Feineis, Doris; Schmidt, David; Mudogo, Virima; Kaiser, Marcel; Brun, Reto; Würthner, Frank; Awale, Suresh; Bringmann, Gerhard. In J. Nat. Prod., 82(11), pp. 3150–3164. 2019.
  • Near‐Infrared Quadrupolar Chromophores Combining Three‐Coordinate Boron‐Based Superdonor and Superacceptor Units. E.Stennett, Tom; Bissinger, Philipp; Griesbeck, Stefanie; Ullrich, Stefan; Krummenacher, Ivo; Auth, Michael; Sperlich, Andreas; Stolte, Matthias; Radacki, Krzysztof; Yao, Chang-Jiang; Würthner, Frank; Steffen, Andreas; Marder, Todd B.; Braunschweig, Holger. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 58, pp. 6449–6454. 2019.
  • Bis(merocyanine) Hetero-Folda-Dimers: Evaluation of Exciton Coupling between Different Types of π-Stacked Chromphores. Kirchner, Eva; Bialas, David; Würthner, Frank. In Chem. Eur. J., 25, pp. 11294–11301. 2019.
  • Bis(merocyanine) Homo-Folda-Dimers: Evaluation of Electronic and Spectral Changes in Well-Defined Dye Aggregate Geometries. Kirchner, Eva; Bialas, David; Wehner, Marius; Schmidt, David; Würthner, Frank. In Chem. Eur. J., 25, pp. 11285–11293. 2019.
  • Organic Electronics: Ultranarrow Bandwidth Organic Photodiodes by Exchange Narrowing in Merocyanine H‐ and J‐Aggregate Excitonic Systems. Liess, Andreas; Arjona‐Esteban, Alhama; Kudzus, Astrid; Albert, Julius; Krause, Ana‐Maria; Lv, Aifeng; Stolte, Matthias; Meerholz, Klaus; Würthner, Frank. In Advanced Functional Materials, 29(21), pp. 1805058 (1–9). 2019.
  • Tunable Low-LUMO Boron-Doped Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons by General One-Pot C–H Borylations. Farrell, Jeffrey; Mützel, Carina; Bialas, David; Rudolf, Maximilian; Menekse, Kaan; Krause, Ana-Maria; Stolte, Matthias; Würthner, Frank. In J. Am. Chem. Soc, 141(22), pp. 9096–9104. 2019.
  • Spectral and Structural Variations of Biomimetic Light-Harvesting Nanotubes. Löhner, A.; Kunsel, T.; Röhr, M. I. S.; Jansen, T. L. C.; Sengupta, S.; Würthner, F.; Knoester, J.; Köhler, J. In J. Phys. Chem. Lett., pp. 2715–2724. 2019.
  • Supramolecular polymerization and cyclization of dioxynaphthalene motif bridged bifunctional UPys: minor variations in the molecular skeleton and drastic differences in self-assembly. Xiao, Tangxin; Xu, Lixiang; Götz, Julian; Cheng, Ming; Würthner, Frank; Gu, Jiande; Feng, Xuejun; Li, Zheng-Yi; Sun, Xiao-Qiang; Wang, Leyong. In Mater. Chem. Front., 3(12), pp. 2738–2745. 2019.
  • Linking two worlds in polymer chemistry: The influence of block uniformity and dispersity in amphiphilic block copolypeptoids on their self‐assembly. Gangloff, Niklas; Höferth, Marcel; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Sochor, Benedikt; Schummer, Bernhard; Nickel, Joachim; Walles, Heike; Hanke, Randolf; Würthner, Frank; Zuckermann, Ronald N.; Luxenhofer, Robert. In Biopolymers, 110(4), p. e23259. 2019.
  • Progress in the synthesis of perylene bisimide dyes. Nowak-Król, Agnieszka; Würthner, Frank. In Org. Chem. Front., 6(8), pp. 1272–1318. 2019.
2018[ to top ]
  • Temperature-Responsive Luminescent Solar Concentrators: Tuning Energy Transfer in a Liquid Crystalline Matrix. Sol, Jeroen A. H. P.; Dehm, Volker; Hecht, Reinhard; Würthner, Frank; Schenning, Albertus P. H. J.; Debije, Michael G. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 57(4), pp. 1030–1033. 2018.
  • All-in-one visible-light-driven water splitting by combining nanoparticulate and molecular co-catalysts on CdS nanorods. Wolff, Christian M.; Frischmann, Peter D.; Schulze, Marcus; Bohn, Bernhard J.; Wein, Robin; Livadas, Panajotis; Carlson, Michael T.; Jäckel, Frank; Feldmann, Jochen; Würthner, Frank; Stolarczyk, Jacek K. In Nature Energy, 3(10), pp. 862–869. 2018.
  • Water-soluble naphthalene diimides: synthesis, optical properties, and colorimetric detection of biogenic amines. Weißenstein, Annike; Grande, Vincenzo; Saha-Möller, Chantu R; Würthner, Frank. In Org. Chem. Front., 5, pp. 2641–2651. 2018.
  • Selective parallel G-quadruplex recognition by a NIR-to-NIR two-photon squaraine. Grande, Vincenzo; Shen, Chia-An; Deiana, Marco; Dudek, Marta; Olesiak-Banska, Joanna; Matczyszyn, Katarzyna; Würthner, Frank. In Chemical Science, 9, pp. 8375–8381. 2018.
  • Naphthalene and perylene diimides – better alternatives to fullerenes for organic electronics?. Nowak-Król, A.; Shoyama, K.; Stolte, M.; Würthner, F. In Chemical Communication, 54, pp. 13763–13772. 2018.
  • Impact of 2-Ethylhexyl Stereoisomers on the Electrical Performance of Single-Crystal Field-Effect Transistors. He, Tao; Leowanawat, Pawaret; Burschka, Christian; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Stolte, Matthias; Würthner, Frank. In Advanced Materials, 30, pp. 1804032–1804039. 2018.
  • Perfluoroalkyltricyanoborate and Perfluoroalkylcyanofluoroborate Anions: Building Blocks for Low-Viscosity Ionic Liquids. Landmann, Johannes; Sprenger, Jan A. P.; Hennig, Philipp T.; Bertermann, Rüdiger; Grüne, Matthias; Würthner, Frank; Ignat’ev, Nikolai V.; Finze, Maik. In Chemistry – A European Journal, 24(3), pp. 608–623. 2018.
  • Pathway complexity in the self-assembly of a zinc chlorin model system of natural bacteriochlorophyll J-aggregates. Ogi, Soichiro; Grzeszkiewicz, Charlotte; Würthner, Frank. In Chem. Sci., 9(10), pp. 2768–2773. 2018.
  • Coupled Cooperative Supramolecular Polymerization: A New Model Applied to the Competing Aggregation Pathways of an Amphiphilic aza-BODIPY Dye into Spherical and Rod-Like Aggregates. Liu, Yong; Zhang, Yongjie; Fennel, Dr. Franziska; Wagner, Wolfgang; Würthner, Prof. Frank; Chen, Yuanfang; Chen, Prof. Zhijian. In Chem. Eur. J., 24(61), pp. 16388–16394. 2018.
  • Optical Sensing of Aromatic Amino Acids and Dipeptides by a Crown‐Ether‐Functionalized Perylene Bisimide Fluorophore. Weißenstein, Annike; Saha‐Möller, Chantu R. Dr; Würthner, Frank Prof. Dr. In Chemistry - A European Journal, 24(31), pp. 8009–8016. 2018.
  • A General Synthetic Route to Polycyclic Aromatic Dicarboximides by Palladium-Catalyzed Annulation Reaction. Shoyama, Kazutaka; Mahl, Magnus; Seifert, Sabine; Würthner, Frank. In The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 83(10), pp. 5339–5346. 2018.
  • Self-assembly of multi-stranded perylene dye J-aggregates in columnar liquid-crystalline phases. Herbst, Stefanie; Soberats, Bartolome; Leowanawat, Pawaret; Stolte, Matthias; Lehmann, Matthias; Würthner, Frank. In Nature Communications, 9(1), pp. 2646–2654. 2018.
  • Discrete π-Stacks of Perylene Bisimide Dyes within Folda-Dimers: Insight into Long- and Short-Range Exciton Coupling. Kaufmann, Christina; Bialas, David; Stolte, Matthias; Würthner, Frank. In J. Am. Chem. Soc., 140(31), pp. 9986–9995. 2018.
  • Tunable Light-Matter Hybridization in Open Organic Microcavities. Betzold, Simon; Herbst, Stefanie; Trichet, Aurelien A. P.; Smith, Jason M.; Würthner, Frank; Höfling, Sven; Dietrich, Christof P. In ACS Photonics, 5(1), pp. 90–94. 2018.
  • Microtubular Self-Assembly of Covalent Organic Frameworks. Gole, Bappaditya; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Rager, Sabrina; Grüne, Matthias; Medina, Dana D.; Bein, Thomas; Würthner, Frank; Beuerle, Florian. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 57(3), pp. 846–850. 2018.
  • Ultrafast Exciton Delocalization, Localization, and Excimer Formation Dynamics in a Highly Defined Perylene Bisimide Quadruple π-Stack. Kaufmann, Christina; Kim, Woojae; Nowak-Król, Agnieszka; Hong, Yongseok; Kim, Dongho; Würthner, Frank. In J. Am. Chem. Soc., 140(12), pp. 4253–4258. 2018.
  • Stable Organic (Bi)Radicals by Delocalization of Spin Density into the Electron‐Poor Chromophore Core of Isoindigo. Rausch, Rodger; Schmidt, David; Bialas, David; Krummenacher, Ivo; Braunschweig, Holger; Würthner, Frank. In Chemistry - A European Journal, 24(14), pp. 3420–3424. 2018.
  • Tetrachlorinated Polycyclic Aromatic Dicarboximides: New Electron‐Poor π‐Scaffolds and NIR Emitters by Palladium‐Catalyzed Annulation Reaction. Mahl, Magnus; Shoyama, Dr. Kazutaka; Rühe, Jessica; Grande, Dr. Vincenzo; Würthner, Prof. Frank. In Chemistry - A European Journal, 24(37), pp. 9409 –9416. 2018.
  • Hydrogen-bonded perylene bisimide J-aggregate aqua material. Grande, Vincenzo; Soberats, Bartolome; Herbst, Stefanie; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Würthner, Frank. In Chemical Science, 9, pp. 6904 – 6911. 2018.
  • Crystal step edges can trap electrons on the surfaces of n-type organic semiconductors. He, Tao; Wu, Yanfei; D’Avino, Gabriele; Schmidt, Elliot; Stolte, Matthias; Cornil, Jérôme; Beljonne, David; Ruden, P. Paul; Würthner, Frank; Frisbie, C. Daniel. In Nature Communications, 9(1), p. 2141. 2018.
  • Direct observation of exciton–exciton interactions. Dostál, Jakub; Fennel, Franziska; Koch, Federico; Herbst, Stefanie; Würthner, Frank; Brixner, Tobias. In Nature Communications, 9(1), pp. 2466–2473. 2018.
  • Fluorescence quantum yields of dye aggregates: a showcase example based on self-assembled perylene bisimide dimers. Fennel, Franziska; Gershberg, Jana; Stolte, Matthias; Würthner, Frank. In Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 20(11), pp. 7612–7620. 2018.
  • Photoinduced Dynamics of Bis-dipyrrinato-palladium(II) and Porphodimethenato-palladium(II) Complexes: Governing Near Infrared Phosphorescence by Structural Restriction. Riese, Stefan; Holzapfel, Marco; Schmiedel, Alexander; Gert, Ingo; Schmidt, David; Würthner, Frank; Lambert, Christoph. In Inorganic Chemistry, 57(20), pp. 12480–12488. 2018.
2017[ to top ]
  • Supramolecular Approaches to Improve the Performance of Ruthenium-Based Water Oxidation Catalysts. Kunz, Valentin; Schmidt, David; Röhr, Merle I. S.; Mitrić, Roland; Würthner, Frank. In Advanced Energy Materials, 7(16), p. n/a-n/a. 2017.
  • A Columnar Liquid-Crystal Phase Formed by Hydrogen-Bonded Perylene Bisimide J-Aggregates. Herbst, Stefanie; Soberats, Bartolome; Leowanawat, Pawaret; Lehmann, Matthias; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 56(8), pp. 2162–2165. 2017.
  • An Aggregating Amphiphilic Squaraine: A Light-up Probe That Discriminates Parallel G-Quadruplexes. Grande, Vincenzo; Doria, Filippo; Freccero, Mauro; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 56(26), pp. 7520–7524. 2017.
  • Atomistic Approach To Simulate Processes Relevant for the Efficiencies of Organic Solar Cells as a Function of Molecular Properties. II. Kinetic Aspects. Brückner, Charlotte; Würthner, Frank; Meerholz, Klaus; Engels, Bernd. In J. Phys. Chem. C., 121(1), pp. 26–51. 2017.
  • Low temperature exciton dynamics and structural changes in perylene bisimide aggregates. Wolter, Steffen; Westphal, Karl Magnus; Hempel, Magdalena; Würthner, Frank; Kühn, Oliver; Lochbrunner, Stefan. In Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 50(18), p. 184005. 2017.
  • Ultrafast isomerization in a difluoroboryl-coordinated molecular switch. Consani, Cristina; Berberich, Martin; Würthner, Frank; Brixner, Tobias. In Chemical Physics Letters, 683(Supplement C), pp. 83–90. 2017.
    Ahmed Zewail (1946-2016) Commemoration Issue of Chemical Physics Letters
  • Trinuclear Ruthenium Macrocycles: Toward Supramolecular Water Oxidation Catalysis in Pure Water. Kunz, Valentin; Schulze, Marcus; Schmidt, David; Würthner, Frank. In ACS Energy Letters, 2(2), pp. 288–293. 2017.
  • Cooperative water oxidation catalysis in a series of trinuclear metallosupramolecular ruthenium macrocycles. Kunz, Valentin; Lindner, Joachim O.; Schulze, Marcus; Rohr, Merle I. S.; Schmidt, David; Mitric, Roland; Würthner, Frank. In Energy Environ. Sci., 10(10), pp. 2137–2153. 2017.
  • Unprecedented low energy losses in organic solar cells with high external quantum efficiencies by employing non-fullerene electron acceptors. Mishra, Amaresh; Keshtov, Mukhamed[space]L.; Looser, Annika; Singhal, Rahul; Stolte, Matthias; Würthner, Frank; Bauerle, Peter; Sharma, Ganesh D. In J. Mater. Chem. A, 5(28), pp. 14887–14897. 2017.
  • Perylene Bisimide Cyclophanes with High Binding Affinity for Large Planar Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons: Host–Guest Complexation versus Self-Encapsulation of Side Arms. Spenst, Peter; Sieblist, Andreas; Würthner, Frank. In Chemistry – A European Journal, 23(7), pp. 1667–1675. 2017.
  • QM/MM calculations combined with the dimer approach on the static disorder at organic-organic interfaces of thin-film organic solar cells composed of small molecules. Brückner, Charlotte; Stolte, Matthias; Würthner, Frank; Pflaum, Jens; Engels, Bernd. In J. Phys. Org. Chem. 2017.
  • Evaluation of Perylene Bisimide-Based RuII and IrIII Complexes as Photosensitizers for Photodynamic Therapy. Mari, Cristina; Huang, Huaiyi; Rubbiani, Riccardo; Schulze, Marcus; Würthner, Frank; Chao, Hui; Gasser, Gilles. In European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2017(12), pp. 1745–1752. 2017.
  • Exciton Coupling of Merocyanine Dyes from H- to J-type in the Solid State by Crystal Engineering. Liess, Andreas; Lv, Aifeng; Arjona-Esteban, Alhama; Bialas, David; Krause, Ana-Maria; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Stolte, Matthias; Würthner, Frank. In Nano Letters, 17(3), pp. 1719–1726. 2017.
    PMID: 28165244
  • Exciton Transport in Molecular Aggregates – From Natural Antennas to Synthetic Chromophore Systems. Brixner, Tobias; Hildner, Richard; Köhler, Jürgen; Lambert, Christoph; Würthner, Frank. In Advanced Energy Materials, 7(16), p. n/a-n/a. 2017.
  • Donor--Acceptor Dyes for Organic Photovoltaics. Arjona-Esteban, Alhama; Lenze, Martin Robert; Meerholz, Klaus; Würthner, Frank. In Elementary Processes in Organic Photovoltaics, K. Leo (ed.), pp. 193–214. 2017.
  • Photo- and redoxfunctional cyclophanes, macrocycles, and catenanes based on aromatic bisimides. Spenst, Peter; Würthner, Frank. In Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C: Photochemistry Reviews, 31(Supplement C), pp. 114–138. 2017.
  • Fluorescence Polarization Measurements to Probe Alignment of a Bithiophene Dye in One-Dimensional Channels of Self-Assembled Phenylethynylene Bis-Urea Macrocycle Crystals. Kittikhunnatham, Preecha; Som, Bozumeh; Rassolov, Vitaly; Stolte, Matthias; Würthner, Frank; Shimizu, Linda S.; Greytak, Andrew B. In J. Phys. Chem. C., 121(33), pp. 18102–18109. 2017.
  • Diketopyrrolopyrrole Columnar Liquid-Crystalline Assembly Directed by Quadruple Hydrogen Bonds. Soberats, Bartolome; Hecht, Markus; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 56(36), pp. 10771–10774. 2017.
  • A Crystalline π-Stack Containing Five Stereoisomers: Insights into Conformational Isomorphism, Chirality Inversion, and Disorder. Nowak-Król, Agnieszka; Röhr, Merle I. S.; Schmidt, David; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 56(39), pp. 11774–11778. 2017.
  • Structure–Property Relationships from Atomistic Multiscale Simulations of the Relevant Processes in Organic Solar Cells. I. Thermodynamic Aspects. Brückner, Charlotte; Würthner, Frank; Meerholz, Klaus; Engels, Bernd. In J. Phys. Chem. C., 121(1), pp. 4–25. 2017.
  • Living Supramolecular Polymerization of a Perylene Bisimide Dye into Fluorescent J-Aggregates. Wagner, Wolfgang; Wehner, Marius; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Ogi, Soichiro; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., (56), A. C. I. Ed. (ed.), pp. 16008–16012. 2017.
  • Electron-Poor Bowl-Shaped Polycyclic Aromatic Dicarboximides: Synthesis, Crystal Structures, and Optical and Redox Properties. Shoyama, Kazutaka; Schmidt, David; Mahl, Magnus; Würthner, Frank. In Organic Letters, 19(19), pp. 5328–5331. 2017.
    PMID: 28901772
  • Base-Selective Five- versus Six-Membered Ring Annulation in Palladium-Catalyzed C–C Coupling Cascade Reactions: New Access to Electron-Poor Polycyclic Aromatic Dicarboximides. Seifert, Sabine; Schmidt, David; Shoyama, Kazutaka; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 56(26), pp. 7595–7600. 2017.
  • Near-IR Absorbing J-Aggregate of an Amphiphilic BF2-Azadipyrromethene Dye by Kinetic Cooperative Self-Assembly. Chen, Zhijian; Liu, Yong; Wagner, Wolfgang; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Ren, Xiangkui; Ogi, Soichiro; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 56(21), pp. 5729–5733. 2017.
  • All-Polymer Photonic Microcavities Doped with Perylene Bisimide J-Aggregates. Lova, Paola; Grande, Vincenzo; Manfredi, Giovanni; Patrini, Maddalena; Herbst, Stefanie; Würthner, Frank; Comoretto, Davie. In Advanced Optical Materials, 5(21), p. 1700523. 2017.
  • Solid-state inclusion of C60 and C70 in a co-polymer induced by metal-ligand coordination of a Zn-porphyrin cage with a bis-pyridyl perylene derivative. Escudero-Adan, Eduardo C.; Bauza, Antonio; Hernandez-Eguia, Laura P.; Würthner, Frank; Ballester, Pablo; Frontera, Antonio. In CrystEngComm, 19(33), pp. 4911–4919. 2017.
  • Unraveling the structure and exciton coupling for multichromophoric merocyanine dye molecules. Koch, Federico; Stolte, Matthias; Zitzler-Kunkel, Andre; Bialas, David; Steinbacher, Andreas; Brixner, Tobias; Würthner, Frank. In Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 19(9), pp. 6368–6378. 2017.
  • Hybrid Photoconductive Cathode Interlayer Materials Composed of Perylene Bisimide Photosensitizers and Zinc Oxide for High Performance Polymer Solar Cells. Xie, Zengqi; Würthner, Frank. In Advanced Energy Materials, 7(16), p. n/a-n/a. 2017.
  • Three-dimensional photonic confinement in imprinted liquid crystalline pillar microcavities. Dusel, Marco; Betzold, Simon; Brodbeck, Sebastian; Herbst, Stefanie; Würthner, Frank; Friedrich, Daniel; Hecht, Bert; Höfling, Sven; Dietrich, Christof P. In Applied Physics Letters, 110(20), p. 201113. 2017.
  • Influence of optical material properties on strong coupling in organic semiconductor based microcavities. Tropf, Laura; Dietrich, Christof P.; Herbst, Stefanie; Kanibolotsky, Alexander L.; Skabara, Peter J.; Würthner, Frank; Samuel, Ifor D. W.; Gather, Malte C.; Höfling, Sven. In Applied Physics Letters, 110(15), p. 153302. 2017.
  • Solvent-Templated Folding of Perylene Bisimide Macrocycles into Coiled Double-String Ropes with Solvent-Sensitive Optical Signatures. Spenst, Peter; Young, Ryan M.; Phelan, Brian T.; Keller, Michel; Dostál, Jakub; Brixner, Tobias; Wasielewski, Michael R.; Würthner, Frank. In J. Am. Chem. Soc., 139(5), pp. 2014–2021. 2017.
    PMID: 28080033
  • Synthesis of a Doubly Boron-Doped Perylene through NHC-Borenium Hydroboration/C−H Borylation/Dehydrogenation. Farrell, Jeffrey M.; Schmidt, David; Grande, Vincenzo; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 56(39), pp. 11846–11850. 2017.
2016[ to top ]
  • Biphasic aggregation of a perylene bisimide dye identified by exciton-vibrational spectra. Plotz, P.-A.; Polyutov, S. P.; Ivanov, S. D.; Fennel, F.; Wolter, S.; Niehaus, T.; Xie, Z.; Lochbrunner, S.; Würthner, F.; Kuhn, O. In Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 18(36), pp. 25110–25119. 2016.
  • Direct Observation of Excimer-Mediated Intramolecular Electron Transfer in a Cofacially-Stacked Perylene Bisimide Pair. Sung, Jooyoung; Nowak-Król, Agnieszka; Schlosser, Felix; Fimmel, Benjamin; Kim, Woojae; Kim, Dongho; Würthner, Frank. In J. Am. Chem. Soc., 138(29), pp. 9029–9032. 2016.
    PMID: 27407012
  • Modulation of band gap and p- versus n-semiconductor character of ADA dyes by core and acceptor group variation. Nowak-Krol, Agnieszka; Wagener, Reinhard; Kraus, Felix; Mishra, Amaresh; Bauerle, Peter; Würthner, Frank. In Org. Chem. Front., 3(5), pp. 545–555. 2016.
  • Conformational Switching of π-Conjugated Junctions from Merocyanine to Cyanine States by Solvent Polarity. Arjona-Esteban, Alhama; Stolte, Matthias; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 55(7), pp. 2470–2473. 2016.
  • Tracing Single Electrons in a Disordered Polymer Film at Room Temperature. Wilma, Kevin; Issac, Abey; Chen, Zhijian; Würthner, Frank; Hildner, Richard; Köhler, Jürgen. In J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 7(8), pp. 1478–1483. 2016.
    PMID: 27035727
  • An Electron-Poor C64 Nanographene by Palladium-Catalyzed Cascade C−C Bond Formation: One-Pot Synthesis and Single-Crystal Structure Analysis. Seifert, Sabine; Shoyama, Kazutaka; Schmidt, David; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 128(22), pp. 6500–6505. 2016.
  • Liquid-Crystalline Squaraine Dyes with Anisotropic Absorption of Near Infrared Light. Soberats, Bartolome; Mayerhöffer, Ulrich; Würthner, Frank. In Advanced Optical Materials, 4(8), pp. 1186–1189. 2016.
  • Structural and quantum chemical analysis of exciton coupling in homo- and heteroaggregate stacks of merocyanines. Bialas, David; Zitzler-Kunkel, André; Kirchner, Eva; Schmidt, David; Würthner, Frank. In Nature Communications, 7, p. 12949-. 2016.
  • A supramolecular ruthenium macrocycle with high catalytic activity for water oxidation that mechanistically mimics photosystem II. Schulze, Marcus; Kunz, Valentin; Frischmann, Peter D.; Würthner, Frank. In Nat Chem, 8(6), pp. 576–583. 2016.
  • Tetramethoxy-bay-substituted perylene bisimides by copper-mediated cross-coupling. Leowanawat, Pawaret; Nowak-Krol, Agnieszka; Würthner, Frank. In Org. Chem. Front., 3(5), pp. 537–544. 2016.
  • Anti-cooperative supramolecular polymerization: a new K2-K model applied to the self-assembly of perylene bisimide dye proceeding via well-defined hydrogen-bonded dimers. Gershberg, Jana; Fennel, Franziska; Rehm, Thomas H.; Lochbrunner, Stefan; Würthner, Frank. In Chem. Sci., 7(3), pp. 1729–1737. 2016.
  • The role of the dipolar neighborhood on the relaxation dynamics of multichromophoric merocyanines. Koch, Federico; Steinbacher, Andreas; Consani, Cristina; Zitzler-Kunkel, Andre; Stolte, Matthias; Würthner, Frank; Brixner, Tobias. In Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 18(29), pp. 19820–19831. 2016.
  • Perylene Bisimide Dye Assemblies as Archetype Functional Supramolecular Materials. Würthner, Frank; Saha-Möller, Chantu R.; Fimmel, Benjamin; Ogi, Soichiro; Leowanawat, Pawaret; Schmidt, David. In Chemical Reviews, 116(3), pp. 962–1052. 2016.
    PMID: 26270260
  • Aqueous Solution Processed Photoconductive Cathode Interlayer for High Performance Polymer Solar Cells with Thick Interlayer and Thick Active Layer. Nian, Li; Chen, Zhenhui; Herbst, Stefanie; Li, Qingyuan; Yu, Chengzhuo; Jiang, Xiaofang; Dong, Huanli; Li, Fenghong; Liu, Linlin; Würthner, Frank; Chen, Junwu; Xie, Zengqi; Ma, Yuguang. In Advanced Materials, 28(34), pp. 7521–7526. 2016.
  • Organic Semiconductors based on Dyes and Color Pigments. Gsänger, Marcel; Bialas, David; Huang, Lizhen; Stolte, Matthias; Würthner, Frank. In Advanced Materials, 28(19), pp. 3615–3645. 2016.
  • Library of Azabenz-Annulated Core-Extended Perylene Derivatives with Diverse Substitution Patterns and Tunable Electronic and Optical Properties. Schulze, Marcus; Philipp, Michael; Waigel, Waldemar; Schmidt, David; Würthner, Frank. In The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 81(18), pp. 8394–8405. 2016.
    PMID: 27568658
  • Folding-induced exciton coupling in homo- and heterodimers of merocyanine dyes. Bialas, David; Kirchner, Eva; Würthner, Frank. In Chem. Commun., 52(19), pp. 3777–3780. 2016.
  • Entropically Driven Self-Assembly of Bolaamphiphilic Perylene Dyes in Water. Görl, Daniel; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 55(39), pp. 12094–12098. 2016.
  • Perylene bisimide hydrogels and lyotropic liquid crystals with temperature-responsive color change. Gorl, Daniel; Soberats, Bartolome; Herbst, Stefanie; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Würthner, Frank. In Chem. Sci., 7(11), pp. 6786–6790. 2016.
  • Guest and solvent modulated photo-driven charge separation and triplet generation in a perylene bisimide cyclophane. Spenst, Peter; Young, Ryan M.; Wasielewski, Michael R.; Würthner, Frank. In Chem. Sci., 7(8), pp. 5428–5434. 2016.
  • Exciton-Vibrational Couplings in Homo- and Heterodimer Stacks of Perylene Bisimide Dyes within Cyclophanes: Studies on Absorption Properties and Theoretical Analysis. Bialas, David; Brüning, Christoph; Schlosser, Felix; Fimmel, Benjamin; Thein, Johannes; Engel, Volker; Würthner, Frank. In Chemistry – A European Journal, 22(42), pp. 15011–15018. 2016.
  • Impact of Alkyl Spacer Length on Aggregation Pathways in Kinetically Controlled Supramolecular Polymerization. Ogi, Soichiro; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Thein, Johannes; Würthner, Frank. In J. Am. Chem. Soc., 138(2), pp. 670–678. 2016.
    PMID: 26699283
  • Dipole–Dipole Interaction Driven Self-Assembly of Merocyanine Dyes: From Dimers to Nanoscale Objects and Supramolecular Materials. Würthner, Frank. In Accounts of Chemical Research, 49(5), pp. 868–876. 2016.
    PMID: 27064423
  • Diketopyrrolopyrrole Organic Thin-Film Transistors: Impact of Alkyl Substituents and Tolerance of Ethylhexyl Stereoisomers. Stolte, Matthias; Suraru, Sabin-Lucian; Diemer, Patricia; He, Tao; Burschka, Christian; Zschieschang, Ute; Klauk, Hagen; Würthner, Frank. In Advanced Functional Materials, 26(41), pp. 7415–7422. 2016.
  • Single-crystal field-effect transistors of a highly dipolar merocyanine dye. Liess, Andreas; Stolte, Matthias; He, Tao; Würthner, Frank. In Mater. Horiz., 3(1), pp. 72–77. 2016.
  • High performance A-D-A oligothiophene-based organic solar cells employing two-step annealing and solution-processable copper thiocyanate (CuSCN) as an interfacial hole transporting layer. Mishra, Amaresh; Rana, Tushar; Looser, Annika; Stolte, Matthias; Würthner, Frank; Bauerle, Peter; Sharma, Ganesh D. In J. Mater. Chem. A, 4(44), pp. 17344–17353. 2016.
  • A cross-coupling-annulation cascade from peri-dibromonaphthalimide to pseudo-rylene bisimides. Seifert, Sabine; Schmidt, David; Würthner, Frank. In Org. Chem. Front., 3(11), pp. 1435–1442. 2016.
2015[ to top ]
  • Ambient Stable Zwitterionic Perylene Bisimide-Centered Radical. Schmidt, David; Bialas, David; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 54(12), pp. 3611–3614. 2015.
  • Halochromic and hydrochromic squaric acid functionalized perylene bisimide. Maeda, Takeshi; Würthner, Frank. In Chem. Commun., 51(36), pp. 7661–7664. 2015.
  • Sensing of Double-Stranded DNA/RNA Secondary Structures by Water Soluble Homochiral Perylene Bisimide Dyes. Gershberg, Jana; Radić Stojković, Marijana; Škugor, Marko; Tomić, Sanja; Rehm, Thomas H.; Rehm, Stefanie; Saha-Möller, Chantu R.; Piantanida, Ivo; Würthner, Frank. In Chemistry – A European Journal, 21(21), pp. 7886–7895. 2015.
  • An ambient stable core-substituted perylene bisimide dianion: isolation and single crystal structure analysis. Seifert, Sabine; Schmidt, David; Würthner, Frank. In Chem. Sci., 6(3), pp. 1663–1667. 2015.
  • Phenylene Ethynylene-Tethered Perylene Bisimide Folda-Dimer and Folda-Trimer: Investigations on Folding Features in Ground and Excited States. Fimmel, Benjamin; Son, Minjung; Sung, Young Mo; Grüne, Matthias; Engels, Bernd; Kim, Dongho; Würthner, Frank. In Chemistry – A European Journal, 21(2), pp. 615–630. 2015.
  • Spacer-Modulated Differentiation Between Self-Assembly and Folding Pathways for Bichromophoric Merocyanine Dyes. Zitzler-Kunkel, André; Kirchner, Eva; Bialas, David; Simon, Christian; Würthner, Frank. In Chemistry – A European Journal, 21(42), pp. 14851–14861. 2015.
  • Folding-Induced Modulation of Excited-State Dynamics in an Oligophenylene–Ethynylene-Tethered Spiral Perylene Bisimide Aggregate. Son, Minjung; Fimmel, Benjamin; Dehm, Volker; Würthner, Frank; Kim, Dongho. In ChemPhysChem, 16(8), pp. 1757–1767. 2015.
  • Metal ion templated self-assembly of crown ether functionalized perylene bisimide dyes. Weißenstein, Annike; Würthner, Frank. In Chem. Commun., 51(16), pp. 3415–3418. 2015.
  • Photoinduced electron transfer (PET) versus excimer formation in supramolecular p/n-heterojunctions of perylene bisimide dyes and implications for organic photovoltaics. Nowak-Krol, Agnieszka; Fimmel, Benjamin; Son, Minjung; Kim, Dongho; Würthner, Frank. In Faraday Discuss., 185, pp. 507–527. 2015.
  • In-situ modification of PEDOT:PSS work function using alkyl alcohols as secondary processing solvents and their impact on merocyanine based bulk heterojunction solar cells. Lenze, Martin R.; Kronenberg, Nils M.; Würthner, Frank; Meerholz, Klaus. In Organic Electronics, 21(Supplement C), pp. 171–176. 2015.
  • Self-assembled perylene bisimide J-aggregates as promising cathode modifiers for highly efficient inverted polymer solar cells. Xie, Zengqi; Xiao, Biao; He, Zhicai; Zhang, Wenqiang; Wu, Xiaoyan; Wu, Hongbin; Würthner, Frank; Wang, Chao; Xie, Fangyan; Liu, Linlin; Ma, Yuguang; Wong, Wai-Yeung; Cao, Yong. In Mater. Horiz., 2(5), pp. 514–518. 2015.
  • Combination of Cyanine Behaviour and Giant Hyperpolarisability in Novel Merocyanine Dyes: Beyond the Bond Length Alternation (BLA) Paradigm. Parthasarathy, Venkatakrishnan; Pandey, Ravindra; Stolte, Matthias; Ghosh, Sampa; Castet, Frédéric; Würthner, Frank; Das, Puspendu Kumar; Blanchard-Desce, Mireille. In Chemistry – A European Journal, 21(40), pp. 14211–14217. 2015.
  • Head-to-Tail Zig-Zag Packing of Dipolar Merocyanine Dyes Affords High-Performance Organic Thin-Film Transistors. Lv, Aifeng; Stolte, Matthias; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 54(36), pp. 10512–10515. 2015.
  • Single-crystal field-effect transistors of new Cl2-NDI polymorph processed by sublimation in air. He, Tao; Stolte, Matthias; Burschka, Christian; Hansen, Nis Hauke; Musiol, Thomas; Kälblein, Daniel; Pflaum, Jens; Tao, Xutang; Brill, Jochen; Würthner, Frank. 6, p. 5954-. 2015.
  • Photoconductive Cathode Interlayer for Highly Efficient Inverted Polymer Solar Cells. Nian, Li; Zhang, Wenqiang; Zhu, Na; Liu, Linlin; Xie, Zengqi; Wu, Hongbin; Würthner, Frank; Ma, Yuguang. In J. Am. Chem. Soc., 137(22), pp. 6995–6998. 2015.
    PMID: 26016386
  • Direct observation of ultrafast coherent exciton dynamics in helical π-stacks of self-assembled perylene bisimides. Sung, Jooyoung; Kim, Pyosang; Fimmel, Benjamin; Würthner, Frank; Kim, Dongho. 6, p. 8646-. 2015.
  • Mechanism of Self-Assembly Process and Seeded Supramolecular Polymerization of Perylene Bisimide Organogelator. Ogi, Soichiro; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Sugiyasu, Kazunori; Takeuchi, Masayuki; Würthner, Frank. In J. Am. Chem. Soc., 137(9), pp. 3300–3307. 2015.
    PMID: 25689054
  • Perylene Bisimide Radicals and Biradicals: Synthesis and Molecular Properties. Schmidt, David; Son, Minjung; Lim, Jong Min; Lin, Mei-Jin; Krummenacher, Ivo; Braunschweig, Holger; Kim, Dongho; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 54(47), pp. 13980–13984. 2015.
  • Concentration-dependent rhombitrihexagonal tiling patterns at the liquid/solid interface. Stepanenko, Vladimir; Kandanelli, Ramesh; Uemura, Shinobu; Würthner, Frank; Fernandez, Gustavo. In Chem. Sci., 6(10), pp. 5853–5858. 2015.
  • Near-IR Phosphorescent Ruthenium(II) and Iridium(III) Perylene Bisimide Metal Complexes. Schulze, Marcus; Steffen, Andreas; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 54(5), pp. 1570–1573. 2015.
  • Structure–Property Relationships for Exciton and Charge Reorganization Energies of Dipolar Organic Semiconductors: A Combined Valence Bond Self-Consistent Field and Time-Dependent Hartree-Fock and DFT Study of Merocyanine Dyes. Brückner, Charlotte; Walter, Christof; Stolte, Matthias; Braïda, Benoît; Meerholz, Klaus; Würthner, Frank; Engels, Bernd. In J. Phys. Chem. C., 119(31), pp. 17602–17611. 2015.
  • Bright Fluorescence and Host–Guest Sensing with a Nanoscale M4L6 Tetrahedron Accessed by Self-Assembly of Zinc–Imine Chelate Vertices and Perylene Bisimide Edges. Frischmann, Peter D.; Kunz, Valentin; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 54(25), pp. 7285–7289. 2015.
  • Supramolecular block copolymers by kinetically controlled co-self-assembly of planar and core-twisted perylene bisimides. Görl, Daniel; Zhang, Xin; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Würthner, Frank. In Nature Communications, 6, p. 7009-. 2015.
  • Embedding of a ruthenium(ii) water oxidation catalyst into nanofibers via self-assembly. Kunz, Valentin; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Würthner, Frank. In Chem. Commun., 51(2), pp. 290–293. 2015.
  • Ultrafast Photoinduced Symmetry-Breaking Charge Separation and Electron Sharing in Perylenediimide Molecular Triangles. Wu, Yilei; Young, Ryan M.; Frasconi, Marco; Schneebeli, Severin T.; Spenst, Peter; Gardner, Daniel M.; Brown, Kristen E.; Würthner, Frank; Stoddart, J. Fraser; Wasielewski, Michael R. In J. Am. Chem. Soc., 137(41), pp. 13236–13239. 2015.
    PMID: 26418462
  • Organic Thin Film Transistors Based on Highly Dipolar Donor–Acceptor Polymethine Dyes. Liess, Andreas; Huang, Lizhen; Arjona-Esteban, Alhama; Lv, Aifeng; Gsänger, Marcel; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Stolte, Matthias; Würthner, Frank. In Advanced Functional Materials, 25(1), pp. 44–57. 2015.
  • A Perylene Bisimide Cyclophane as a “Turn-On” and “Turn-Off” Fluorescence Probe. Spenst, Peter; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 54(35), pp. 10165–10168. 2015.
  • Influence of Solid-State Packing of Dipolar Merocyanine Dyes on Transistor and Solar Cell Performances. Arjona-Esteban, Alhama; Krumrain, Julian; Liess, Andreas; Stolte, Matthias; Huang, Lizhen; Schmidt, David; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Gsänger, Marcel; Hertel, Dirk; Meerholz, Klaus; Würthner, Frank. In J. Am. Chem. Soc., 137(42), pp. 13524–13534. 2015.
    PMID: 26414767
2014[ to top ]
  • A multi-property fluorescent probe for the investigation of polymer dynamics near the glass transition. Siekierzycka, Joanna R.; Hippius, Catharina; Würthner, Frank; Williams, René M.; Brouwer, Albert M. In Central European Journal of Chemistry, 12(9), pp. 937–952. 2014.
  • Impact of mesoscale order on open-circuit voltage in organic solar cells. Poelking, Carl; Tietze, Max; Elschner, Chris; Olthof, Selina; Hertel, Dirk; Baumeier, Björn; Würthner, Frank; Meerholz, Klaus; Leo, Karl; Andrienko, Denis. 14, p. 434 EP -. 2014.
    Article
  • Comparative Studies on Optical, Redox, and Photovoltaic Properties of a Series of D–A–D and Analogous D–A Chromophores. Zitzler-Kunkel, André; Lenze, Martin R.; Schnier, Tobias; Meerholz, Klaus; Würthner, Frank. In Advanced Functional Materials, 24(29), pp. 4645–4653. 2014.
  • Structure-property relationships for 1,7-diphenoxy-perylene bisimides in solution and in the solid state. Jimenez, Angel J.; Lin, Mei-Jin; Burschka, Christian; Becker, Johannes; Settels, Volker; Engels, Bernd; Würthner, Frank. In Chem. Sci., 5(2), pp. 608–619. 2014.
  • Functional bisimide dyes bound via electrostatic interactions to oxide nanostructures generated by AFM lithography. Baumgärtel, T.; Rehm, S.; Würthner, F.; von Borczyskowski, C.; Graaf, H. In Applied Surface Science, 318(Supplement C), pp. 51–58. 2014.
    NANOTR9, 9th Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Conference Special Issue
  • Impact of Molecular Dipole Moments on Fermi Level Pinning in Thin Films. Winkler, Stefanie; Frisch, Johannes; Amsalem, Patrick; Krause, Stefan; Timpel, Melanie; Stolte, Matthias; Würthner, Frank; Koch, Norbert. In J. Phys. Chem. C., 118(22), pp. 11731–11737. 2014.
  • High-Performance Organic Thin-Film Transistors of J-Stacked Squaraine Dyes. Gsänger, Marcel; Kirchner, Eva; Stolte, Matthias; Burschka, Christian; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Pflaum, Jens; Würthner, Frank. In J. Am. Chem. Soc., 136(6), pp. 2351–2362. 2014.
    PMID: 24432873
  • Nano-Confined Squaraine Dye Assemblies: New Photoacoustic and Near-Infrared Fluorescence Dual-Modular Imaging Probes in Vivo. Zhang, Di; Zhao, Ying-Xi; Qiao, Zeng-Ying; Mayerhöffer, Ulrich; Spenst, Peter; Li, Xiao-Jun; Würthner, Frank; Wang, Hao. In Bioconjugate Chemistry, 25(11), pp. 2021–2029. 2014.
    PMID: 25370305
  • Stepwise Decrease of Fluorescence versus Sequential Photobleaching in a Single Multichromophoric System. Issac, Abey; Hildner, Richard; Hippius, Catharina; Würthner, Frank; Köhler, Jürgen. In ACS Nano, 8(2), pp. 1708–1717. 2014.
    PMID: 24444041
  • NIR-Absorbing Merocyanine Dyes for BHJ Solar Cells. Zitzler-Kunkel, André; Lenze, Martin R.; Kronenberg, Nils M.; Krause, Ana-Maria; Stolte, Matthias; Meerholz, Klaus; Würthner, Frank. In Chemistry of Materials, 26(16), pp. 4856–4866. 2014.
  • Supramolecular adducts of squaraine and protein for noninvasive tumor imaging and photothermal therapy in vivo. Gao, Fu-Ping; Lin, Yao-Xin; Li, Li-Li; Liu, Ya; Mayerhöffer, Ulrich; Spenst, Peter; Su, Ji-Guo; Li, Jing-Yuan; Würthner, Frank; Wang, Hao. In Biomaterials, 35(3), pp. 1004–1014. 2014.
  • Supramolecular polymerization: Living it up. Würthner, Frank. In Nat Chem, 6(3), pp. 171–173. 2014.
  • Single Lévy States–Disorder Induced Energy Funnels in Molecular Aggregates. Merdasa, Aboma; Jiménez, Ángel J.; Camacho, Rafael; Meyer, Matthias; Würthner, Frank; Scheblykin, Ivan G. In Nano Letters, 14(12), pp. 6774–6781. 2014.
    PMID: 25349900
  • Synthesis and Properties of a New Class of Fully Conjugated Azahexacene Analogues. Yue, Wan; Suraru, Sabin-Lucian; Bialas, David; Müller, Matthias; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 53(24), pp. 6159–6162. 2014.
  • Spectroscopic Demonstration of Exciton Dynamics and Excimer Formation in a Sterically Controlled Perylene Bisimide Dimer Aggregate. Son, Minjung; Park, Kyu Hyung; Shao, Changzhun; Würthner, Frank; Kim, Dongho. In J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 5(20), pp. 3601–3607. 2014.
    PMID: 26278616
  • An organogelator design without solubilizing side chains by backbone contortion of a perylene bisimide pigment. Xie, Zengqi; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Fimmel, Benjamin; Würthner, Frank. In Mater. Horiz., 1(3), pp. 355–359. 2014.
  • Strategies for the Synthesis of Functional Naphthalene Diimides. Suraru, Sabin-Lucian; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 53(29), pp. 7428–7448. 2014.
  • Self-assembly of octachloroperylene diimide into 1D rods and 2D plates by manipulating the growth kinetics for waveguide applications. Liu, Huiying; Cao, Xinqiang; Wu, Yishi; Liao, Qing; Jimenez, Angel J.; Würthner, Frank; Fu, Hongbing. In Chem. Commun., 50(35), pp. 4620–4623. 2014.
  • Synthesis and Properties of a New Class of Fully Conjugated Azahexacene Analogues. Yue, Wan; Suraru, Sabin-Lucian; Bialas, David; Müller, Matthias; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 53(24), pp. 6159–6162. 2014.
  • Cyanated isoindigos for n-type and ambipolar organic thin film transistors. Yue, Wan; He, Tao; Stolte, Matthias; Gsanger, Marcel; Würthner, Frank. In Chem. Commun., 50(5), pp. 545–547. 2014.
  • Hierarchical Growth of Fluorescent Dye Aggregates in Water by Fusion of Segmented Nanostructures. Zhang, Xin; Görl, Daniel; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 53(5), pp. 1270–1274. 2014.
  • Reconstruction of the Molecular Structure of a Multichromophoric System Using Single-Molecule Defocused Wide-Field Imaging. Ham, Sujin; Yang, Jaesung; Schlosser, Felix; Würthner, Frank; Kim, Dongho. In J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 5(16), pp. 2830–2835. 2014.
    PMID: 26278086
  • Synthesis and Structural Analysis of Thiophene-Pyrrole-Based S,N-Heteroacenes. Wetzel, Christoph; Mishra, Amaresh; Mena-Osteritz, Elena; Liess, Andreas; Stolte, Matthias; Würthner, Frank; Bäuerle, Peter. In Organic Letters, 16(2), pp. 362–365. 2014.
    PMID: 24359234
  • Diindole-Annulated Naphthalene Diimides: Synthesis and Optical and Electronic Properties of Syn- and Anti-Isomers. Suraru, Sabin-Lucian; Burschka, Christian; Würthner, Frank. In The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 79(1), pp. 128–139. 2014.
  • Theoretical Analysis of the Relaxation Dynamics in Perylene Bisimide Dimers Excited by Femtosecond Laser Pulses. Schubert, Alexander; Falge, Mirjam; Kess, Martin; Settels, Volker; Lochbrunner, Stefan; Strunz, Walter T.; Würthner, Frank; Engels, Bernd; Engel, Volker. In J. Phys. Chem. A, 118(8), pp. 1403–1412. 2014.
    PMID: 24475775
  • Photocontrol Over Self-Assembled Nanostructures of π–π Stacked Dyes Supported by the Parallel Conformer of Diarylethene. Yagai, Shiki; Iwai, Kazunori; Yamauchi, Mitsuaki; Karatsu, Takashi; Kitamura, Akihide; Uemura, Shinobu; Morimoto, Masakazu; Wang, Hao; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 53(10), pp. 2602–2606. 2014.
2013[ to top ]
  • Synthesis of a Non-aggregating Bay-Unsubstituted Perylene Bisimide Dye with Latent Bromo Groups for C–C Cross Coupling. Frischmann, Peter D.; Würthner, Frank. In Organic Letters, 15(18), pp. 4674–4677. 2013.
    PMID: 24015879
  • Biphasic Self-Assembly Pathways and Size-Dependent Photophysical Properties of Perylene Bisimide Dye Aggregates. Fennel, Franziska; Wolter, Steffen; Xie, Zengqi; Plötz, Per-Arno; Kühn, Oliver; Würthner, Frank; Lochbrunner, Stefan. In J. Am. Chem. Soc., 135(50), pp. 18722–18725. 2013.
  • Giant Electroactive M4L6 Tetrahedral Host Self-Assembled with Fe(II) Vertices and Perylene Bisimide Dye Edges. Mahata, Kingsuk; Frischmann, Peter D.; Würthner, Frank. In J. Am. Chem. Soc., 135(41), pp. 15656–15661. 2013.
    PMID: 24059438
  • Structure–Property Relationship of Perylene Bisimide Macrocycles Probed by Atomic Force Microscopy and Single-Molecule Fluorescence Spectroscopy. Lee, Ji-Eun; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Yang, Jaesung; Yoo, Hyejin; Schlosser, Felix; Bellinger, Daniel; Engels, Bernd; Scheblykin, Ivan G.; Würthner, Frank; Kim, Dongho. In ACS Nano, 7(6), pp. 5064–5076. 2013.
    PMID: 23656366
  • High-mobility organic thin-film transistors based on a small-molecule semiconductor deposited in vacuum and by solution shearing. Hofmockel, Robert; Zschieschang, Ute; Kraft, Ulrike; Rödel, Reinhold; Hansen, Nis Hauke; Stolte, Matthias; Würthner, Frank; Takimiya, Kazuo; Kern, Klaus; Pflaum, Jens; Klauk, Hagen. In Organic Electronics, 14(12), pp. 3213–3221. 2013.
  • Core-Brominated Tetraazaperopyrenes as n-Channel Semiconductors for Organic Complementary Circuits on Flexible Substrates. Geib, Sonja; Zschieschang, Ute; Gsänger, Marcel; Stolte, Matthias; Würthner, Frank; Wadepohl, Hubert; Klauk, Hagen; Gade, Lutz H. In Advanced Functional Materials, 23(31), pp. 3866–3874. 2013.
  • Influence of Merocyanine Molecular Dipole Moments on the Valence Levels in Thin Films and the Interface Energy Level Alignment with Au(111). Krause, Stefan; Stolte, Matthias; Würthner, Frank; Koch, Norbert. In J. Phys. Chem. C., 117(37), pp. 19031–19037. 2013.
  • Ultrafast Exciton Self-Trapping upon Geometry Deformation in Perylene-Based Molecular Aggregates. Schubert, Alexander; Settels, Volker; Liu, Wenlan; Würthner, Frank; Meier, Christoph; Fink, Reinhold F.; Schindlbeck, Stefan; Lochbrunner, Stefan; Engels, Bernd; Engel, Volker. In J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 4(5), pp. 792–796. 2013.
    PMID: 26281934
  • White-light emitting dye micelles in aqueous solution. Zhang, Xin; Gorl, Daniel; Würthner, Frank. In Chem. Commun., 49(74), pp. 8178–8180. 2013.
  • ToF-SIMS of metal-complex-based supramolecular architectures on oxide surfaces. Spampinato, V.; Vitale, S.; Quici, S.; Torrisi, A.; Stepanenko, V.; Würthner, F.; Licciardello, A. In Surface and Interface Analysis, 45(1), pp. 206–210. 2013.
  • Chlorophyll J-Aggregates: From Bioinspired Dye Stacks to Nanotubes, Liquid Crystals, and Biosupramolecular Electronics. Sengupta, Sanchita; Würthner, Frank. In Accounts of Chemical Research, 46(11), pp. 2498–2512. 2013.
    PMID: 23865851
  • Large room-temperature magnetoresistance in lateral organic spin valves fabricated by in situ shadow evaporation. Grünewald, M.; Kleinlein, J.; Syrowatka, F.; Würthner, F.; Molenkamp, L.W.; Schmidt, G. In Organic Electronics, 14(8), pp. 2082–2086. 2013.
  • Transition metal complexes of axially chiral tetrathioether bay-substituted perylene bisimide dyes. Lin, Mei-Jin; Schulze, Marcus; Radacki, Krzysztof; Würthner, Frank. In Chem. Commun., 49(80), pp. 9107–9109. 2013.
  • Exciton delocalization and dynamics in helical [small pi]-stacks of self-assembled perylene bisimides. Lim, Jong Min; Kim, Pyosang; Yoon, Min-Chul; Sung, Jooyoung; Dehm, Volker; Chen, Zhijian; Würthner, Frank; Kim, Dongho. In Chem. Sci., 4(1), pp. 388–397. 2013.
  • Backbone-Directed Perylene Dye Self-Assembly into Oligomer Stacks. Shao, Changzhun; Stolte, Matthias; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 52, pp. 10463–10467. 2013.
  • Redox-switchable Intramolecular π−π-Stacking of Perylene Bisimide Dyes in a Cyclophane. Schlosser, Felix; Moos, Michael; Lambert, Christoph; Würthner, Frank. In Advanced Materials, 25(3), pp. 410–414. 2013.
  • Synthesis and Molecular Properties of Acceptor-Substituted Squaraine Dyes. Mayerhöffer, Ulrich; Gsänger, Marcel; Stolte, Matthias; Fimmel, Benjamin; Würthner, Frank. In Chemistry – A European Journal, 19(1), pp. 218–232. 2013.
  • Regioselectivity in Sequential Nucleophilic Substitution of Tetrabromonaphthalene Diimides. Suraru, Sabin-Lucian; Würthner, Frank. In The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 78(11), pp. 5227–5238. 2013.
    PMID: 23631803
  • Powering the future of molecular artificial photosynthesis with light-harvesting metallosupramolecular dye assemblies. Frischmann, Peter D.; Mahata, Kingsuk; Würthner, Frank. In Chem. Soc. Rev., 42(4), pp. 1847–1870. 2013.
  • Evidence for Kinetic Nucleation in Helical Nanofiber Formation Directed by Chiral Solvent for a Perylene Bisimide Organogelator. Stepanenko, Vladimir; Li, Xue-Qing; Gershberg, Jana; Würthner, Frank. In Chemistry – A European Journal, 19(13), pp. 4176–4183. 2013.
  • Similarities and Differences in the Optical Response of Perylene-Based Hetero-Bichromophores and Their Monomeric Units. Selig, Ulrike; Nuernberger, Patrick; Dehm, Volker; Settels, Volker; Gsänger, Marcel; Engels, Bernd; Würthner, Frank; Brixner, Tobias. In ChemPhysChem, 14(7), pp. 1413–1422. 2013.
  • Cooperative Supramolecular Polymerization: Comparison of Different Models Applied on the Self-Assembly of Bis(merocyanine) Dyes. Fernández, Gustavo; Stolte, Matthias; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Würthner, Frank. In Chemistry – A European Journal, 19(1), pp. 206–217. 2013.
  • Air-Stable n-Channel Organic Single Crystal Field-Effect Transistors Based on Microribbons of Core-Chlorinated Naphthalene Diimide. He, Tao; Stolte, Matthias; Würthner, Frank. In Advanced Materials, 25(48), pp. 6951–6955. 2013.
  • Tuning the Redox Properties of Photochromic Diarylethenes by Introducing Electron-Withdrawing Substituents. Berberich, Martin; Würthner, Frank. In Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2(3), pp. 250–256. 2013.
  • An efficient merocyanine/zinc phthalocyanine tandem solar cell. Steinmann, V.; Umbach, T.E.; Schädel, M.; Krumrain, J.; Lenze, M.R.; Bürckstümmer, H.; Würthner, F.; Meerholz, K. In Organic Electronics, 14(8), pp. 2029–2033. 2013.
  • Enhanced photocurrent generation by folding-driven H-aggregate formation. Zitzler-Kunkel, Andre; Lenze, Martin R.; Meerholz, Klaus; Würthner, Frank. In Chem. Sci., 4(5), pp. 2071–2075. 2013.
  • Quadruple π Stack of Two Perylene Bisimide Tweezers: A Bimolecular Complex with Kinetic Stability. Shao, Changzhun; Stolte, Matthias; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 52(29), pp. 7482–7486. 2013.
  • Charge transport through perylene bisimide molecular junctions: An electrochemical approach. Li, Chen; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Lin, Mei-Jin; Hong, Wenjing; Würthner, Frank; Wandlowski, Thomas. In physica status solidi (b), 250(11), pp. 2458–2467. 2013.
  • Vertical organic spin valves in perpendicular magnetic fields. Grünewald, M.; Göckeritz, R.; Homonnay, N.; Würthner, F.; Molenkamp, L. W.; Schmidt, G. In Phys. Rev. B, 88(8), p. 085319. 2013.
2012[ to top ]
  • Alkaline earth imidazolate coordination polymers by solvent free melt synthesis as potential host lattices for rare earth photoluminescence: xinfinityAE(Im)2(ImH)2-3, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, x = 1-2. Zurawski, Alexander; Rybak, J.-Christoph; Meyer, Larissa V.; Matthes, Philipp R.; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Dannenbauer, Nicole; Würthner, Frank; Muller-Buschbaum, Klaus. In Dalton Trans., 41(14), pp. 4067–4078. 2012.
  • Bright Near-Infrared Fluorophores Based on Squaraines by Unexpected Halogen Effects. Mayerhöffer, Ulrich; Fimmel, Benjamin; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 51(1), pp. 164–167. 2012.
  • Halogen–Arene Interactions Assist in Self-Assembly of Dyes. Mayerhöffer, Ulrich; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 51(23), pp. 5615–5619. 2012.
  • Synthesis and Properties of a Covalently Linked Angular Perylene Imide Dimer. Thorley, Karl J.; Würthner, Frank. In Organic Letters, 14(24), pp. 6190–6193. 2012.
    PMID: 23163900
  • Size-dependent exciton dynamics in one-dimensional perylene bisimide aggregates. Wolter, Steffen; Aizezers, Janis; Fennel, Franziska; Seidel, Marcus; Würthner, Frank; Kühn, Oliver; Lochbrunner, Stefan. In New Journal of Physics, 14(10), p. 105027. 2012.
  • Merocyanine/C60 Planar Heterojunction Solar Cells: Effect of Dye Orientation on Exciton Dissociation and Solar Cell Performance. Ojala, Antti; Petersen, Andreas; Fuchs, Andreas; Lovrincic, Robert; Pölking, Carl; Trollmann, Jens; Hwang, Jaehyung; Lennartz, Christian; Reichelt, Helmut; Höffken, Hans Wolfgang; Pucci, Annemarie; Erk, Peter; Kirchartz, Thomas; Würthner, Frank. In Advanced Functional Materials, 22(1), pp. 86–96. 2012.
  • High-Performance Organic Thin-Film Transistor Based on a Dipolar Organic Semiconductor. Huang, Lizhen; Stolte, Matthias; Bürckstümmer, Hannah; Würthner, Frank. In Advanced Materials, 24(42), pp. 5750–5754. 2012.
  • Cooperative self-assembly of squaraine dyes. Mayerhoffer, Ulrich; Würthner, Frank. In Chem. Sci., 3(4), pp. 1215–1220. 2012.
  • Chiral J-Aggregates of Atropo-Enantiomeric Perylene Bisimides and Their Self-Sorting Behavior. Xie, Zengqi; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Radacki, Krzysztof; Würthner, Frank. In Chemistry – A European Journal, 18(23), pp. 7060–7070. 2012.
  • p-Doped Multiwall Carbon Nanotube/Perylene Diimide Derivative Photoelectrochemical Cells for Photocurrent Generation. Troeger, Anna; Ledendecker, Marc; Margraf, Johannes T.; Sgobba, Vito; Guldi, Dirk M.; Vieweg, Benito F.; Spiecker, Erdmann; Suraru, Sabin-Lucian; Würthner, Frank. In Advanced Energy Materials, 2(5), pp. 536–540. 2012.
  • Bay-substituted perylene bisimide dye with an undistorted planar scaffold and outstanding solid state fluorescence properties. Lin, Mei-Jin; Jimenez, Angel J.; Burschka, Christian; Würthner, Frank. In Chem. Commun., 48(99), pp. 12050–12052. 2012.
  • Improved ambient operation of n-channel organic transistors of solution-sheared naphthalene diimide under bias stress. Stolte, Matthias; Gsanger, Marcel; Hofmockel, Robert; Suraru, Sabin-Lucian; Würthner, Frank. In Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 14(41), pp. 14181–14185. 2012.
  • Terrylene bisimide-diarylethene photochromic switch. Berberich, Martin; Würthner, Frank. In Chem. Sci., 3(9), pp. 2771–2777. 2012.
  • Molecular Assemblies of Perylene Bisimide Dyes in Water. Görl, Daniel; Zhang, Xin; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 51, pp. 6328–6348. 2012.
  • Efficient Charge Transport in Semisynthetic Zinc Chlorin Dye Assemblies. Patwardhan, Sameer; Sengupta, Sanchita; Siebbeles, Laurens D. A.; Würthner, Frank; Grozema, Ferdinand C. In J. Am. Chem. Soc., 134(39), pp. 16147–16150. 2012.
    PMID: 22985422
  • Comparative analysis of the energy levels of planar and core-twisted perylene bisimides in solution and solid state by UV/VIS, CV, and UPS/IPES. Arantes, C.; Scholz, M.; Schmidt, R.; Dehm, V.; Rocco, M. L. M.; Schöll, A.; Reinert, F.; Würthner, F. In Applied Physics A, 108(3), pp. 629–637. 2012.
  • Nondestructive Photoluminescence Read-Out by Intramolecular Electron Transfer in a Perylene Bisimide-Diarylethene Dyad. Berberich, Martin; Natali, Mirco; Spenst, Peter; Chiorboli, Claudio; Scandola, Franco; Würthner, Frank. In Chemistry – A European Journal, 18(43), pp. 13651–13664. 2012.
  • J-Aggregates of Perylene Dyes. Würthner, Frank; Scheblykin, I. G. Vol. 2, T. Kobayashi (ed.), pp. 309–342. 2012.
  • Aggregation-dependent photovoltaic properties of squaraine/PC61BM bulk heterojunctions. Deing, Kaja C.; Mayerhoffer, Ulrich; Würthner, Frank; Meerholz, Klaus. In Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 14(23), pp. 8328–8334. 2012.
  • Biosupramolecular Nanowires from Chlorophyll Dyes with Exceptional Charge-Transport Properties. Sengupta, Sanchita; Ebeling, Daniel; Patwardhan, Sameer; Zhang, Xin; von Berlepsch, Hans; Böttcher, Christoph; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Uemura, Shinobu; Hentschel, Carsten; Fuchs, Harald; Grozema, Ferdinand C.; Siebbeles, Laurens D. A.; Holzwarth, Alfred R.; Chi, Lifeng; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 51(26), pp. 6378–6382. 2012.
  • Planar, bulk and hybrid merocyanine/C60 heterojunction devices: a case study on thin film morphology and photovoltaic performance. Ojala, Antti; Burckstummer, Hannah; Hwang, Jaehyung; Graf, Katja; von Vacano, Bernhard; Meerholz, Klaus; Erk, Peter; Würthner, Frank. In J. Mater. Chem., 22(10), pp. 4473–4482. 2012.
  • Single molecule studies of calix4arene-linked perylene bisimide dimers: relationship between blinking, lifetime and/or spectral fluctuations. Issac, Abey; Hildner, Richard; Ernst, Dominique; Hippius, Catharina; Würthner, Frank; Kohler, Jurgen. In Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 14(30), pp. 10789–10798. 2012.
  • Covalently stabilized self-assembled chlorophyll nanorods by olefin metathesis. Sengupta, Sanchita; Würthner, Frank. In Chem. Commun., 48(46), pp. 5730–5732. 2012.
  • Field-dependent exciton dissociation in organic heterojunction solar cells. Petersen, Andreas; Ojala, Antti; Kirchartz, Thomas; Wagner, Thomas A.; Würthner, Frank; Rau, Uwe. In Phys. Rev. B, 85(24), p. 245208. 2012.
  • Perylene Bisimide Dimer Aggregates: Fundamental Insights into Self-Assembly by NMR and UV/Vis Spectroscopy. Shao, Changzhun; Grüne, Matthias; Stolte, Matthias; Würthner, Frank. In Chemistry – A European Journal, 18(43), pp. 13665–13677. 2012.
  • Interaction of spermine-alanine functionalized perylene bisimide dye aggregates with ds-DNA/RNA secondary structure. Rehm, Thomas H.; Stojkovic, Marijana Radic; Rehm, Stefanie; Skugor, Marko; Piantanida, Ivo; Würthner, Frank. In Chem. Sci., 3(12), pp. 3393–3397. 2012.
  • Reorganization of perylene bisimide J-aggregates: from delocalized collective to localized individual excitations. Tian, Yuxi; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Kaiser, Theo E.; Würthner, Frank; Scheblykin, Ivan G. In Nanoscale, 4(1), pp. 218–223. 2012.
  • Excitation energy migration in covalently linked perylene bisimide macrocycles. Schlosser, Felix; Sung, Jooyoung; Kim, Pyosang; Kim, Dongho; Würthner, Frank. In Chem. Sci., 3(9), pp. 2778–2785. 2012.
  • Solvent and substituent effects on aggregation constants of perylene bisimide [small pi]-stacks - a linear free energy relationship analysis. Chen, Zhijian; Fimmel, Benjamin; Würthner, Frank. In Org. Biomol. Chem., 10(30), pp. 5845–5855. 2012.
2011[ to top ]
  • A simple merocyanine tandem solar cell with extraordinarily high open-circuit voltage. Steinmann, V.; Kronenberg, N. M.; Lenze, M. R.; Graf, S. M.; Hertel, D.; Bürckstümmer, H.; Würthner, F.; Meerholz, K. In Applied Physics Letters, 99(19), p. 193306. 2011.
  • Thiophene-functionalized isoindigo dyes bearing electron donor substituents with absorptions approaching the near infrared region. Bialas, David; Suraru, Sabin-Lucian; Schmidt, Ralf; Würthner, Frank. In Org. Biomol. Chem., 9(17), pp. 6127–6132. 2011.
  • Ring-Closure and Isomerization Capabilities of Spiropyran-Derived Merocyanine Isomers. Buback, Johannes; Nuernberger, Patrick; Kullmann, Martin; Langhojer, Florian; Schmidt, Ralf; Würthner, Frank; Brixner, Tobias. In J. Phys. Chem. A, 115(16), pp. 3924–3935. 2011.
    PMID: 21247207
  • One-Dimensional Exciton Diffusion in Perylene Bisimide Aggregates. Marciniak, Henning; Li, Xue-Qing; Würthner, Frank; Lochbrunner, Stefan. In J. Phys. Chem. A, 115(5), pp. 648–654. 2011.
    PMID: 21192672
  • Simple, Highly Efficient Vacuum-Processed Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells Based on Merocyanine Dyes. Steinmann, Vera; Kronenberg, Nils M.; Lenze, Martin R.; Graf, Steven M.; Hertel, Dirk; Meerholz, Klaus; Bürckstümmer, Hannah; Tulyakova, Elena V.; Würthner, Frank. In Advanced Energy Materials, 1(5), pp. 888–893. 2011.
  • Chiral Amplification, Kinetic Pathways, and Morphogenesis of Helical Nanorods upon Self-assembly of Dipolar Merocyanine Dyes. Lohr, Andreas; Würthner, Frank. In Israel Journal of Chemistry, 51(10), pp. 1052–1066. 2011.
  • Optimized solution-processed merocyanine:PCBM organic bulk heterojunction solar cell. Kronenberg, Nils M.; Bürckstümmer, Hannah; Deppisch, Manuela; Würthner, Frank; Meerholz, Klaus. In Journal of Photonics for Energy, 1, pp. 1 – 1 . 2011.
  • Influence of core-substitution on the ultrafast charge separation and recombination in arylamino core-substituted naphthalene diimides. Pugliesi, Igor; Megerle, Uwe; Suraru, Sabin-Lucian; Würthner, Frank; Riedle, Eberhard; Lochbrunner, Stefan. In Chemical Physics Letters, 504(1), pp. 24–28. 2011.
  • Tunneling anisotropic magnetoresistance in organic spin valves. Grünewald, M.; Wahler, M.; Schumann, F.; Michelfeit, M.; Gould, C.; Schmidt, R.; Würthner, F.; Schmidt, G.; Molenkamp, L. W. In Phys. Rev. B, 84(12), p. 125208. 2011.
  • Impact of Molecular Flexibility on Binding Strength and Self-Sorting of Chiral π-Surfaces. Safont-Sempere, Marina M.; Osswald, Peter; Stolte, Matthias; Grüne, Matthias; Renz, Manuel; Kaupp, Martin; Radacki, Krzysztof; Braunschweig, Holger; Würthner, Frank. In J. Am. Chem. Soc., 133(24), pp. 9580–9591. 2011.
    PMID: 21553857
  • Self-Sorting Phenomena in Complex Supramolecular Systems. Safont-Sempere, Marina M.; Fernández, Gustavo; Würthner, Frank. In Chemical Reviews, 111(9), pp. 5784–5814. 2011.
    PMID: 21846150
  • Naphthalene and perylene diimides for organic transistors. Würthner, Frank; Stolte, Matthias. In Chem. Commun., 47(18), pp. 5109–5115. 2011.
  • Toward Functional Inorganic/Organic Hybrids: Phenoxy-allyl-PTCDI Synthesis, Experimentally and Theoretically Determined Properties of the Isolated Molecule, Layer Characteristics, and the Interface Formation of Phenoxy-allyl-PTCDI on Si(111):H Determined by SXPS and DFT. Decker, Andreas; Suraru, Sabin-Lucian; Rubio-Pons, Oscar; Mankel, Eric; Bockstedte, Michel; Thoss, Michael; Würthner, Frank; Mayer, Thomas; Jaegermann, Wolfram. In J. Phys. Chem. C., 115(43), pp. 21139–21150. 2011.
  • Diketopyrrolopyrrole as a p-channel organic semiconductor for high performance OTFTs. Suraru, Sabin-Lucian; Zschieschang, Ute; Klauk, Hagen; Würthner, Frank. In Chem. Commun., 47(6), pp. 1767–1769. 2011.
  • J-Aggregates: From Serendipitous Discovery to Supramolecular Engineering of Functional Dye Materials. Würthner, Frank; Kaiser, Theo E.; Saha-Möller, Chantu R. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 50(15), pp. 3376–3410. 2011.
  • Impact of core chirality on mesophase properties of perylene bisimides. Safont-Sempere, Marina M.; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Lehmann, Matthias; Würthner, Frank. In J. Mater. Chem., 21(20), pp. 7201–7209. 2011.
  • Columnar Mesophases Based on Zinc Chlorophyll Derivatives Functionalized with Peripheral Dendron Wedges. Sengupta, Sanchita; Uemura, Shinobu; Patwardhan, Sameer; Huber, Valerie; Grozema, Ferdinand C.; Siebbeles, Laurens D. A.; Baumeister, Ute; Würthner, Frank. In Chemistry – A European Journal, 17(19), pp. 5300–5310. 2011.
  • Parallel Bulk-Heterojunction Solar Cell by Electrostatically Driven Phase Separation. Ojala, Antti; Bürckstümmer, Hannah; Stolte, Matthias; Sens, Rüdiger; Reichelt, Helmut; Erk, Peter; Hwang, Jaehyung; Hertel, Dirk; Meerholz, Klaus; Würthner, Frank. In Advanced Materials, 23(45), pp. 5398–5403. 2011.
  • Foldamer with a spiral perylene bisimide staircase aggregate structure. Dehm, Volker; Buchner, Michael; Seibt, Joachim; Engel, Volker; Würthner, Frank. In Chem. Sci., 2(11), pp. 2094–2100. 2011.
  • Assembly of DNA Triangles Mediated by Perylene Bisimide Caps. Menacher, Florian; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Würthner, Frank; Wagenknecht, Hans-Achim. In Chemistry – A European Journal, 17(24), pp. 6683–6688. 2011.
  • Halochromic Phenolate Perylene Bisimides with Unprecedented NIR Spectroscopic Properties. Lin, Mei-Jin; Fimmel, Benjamin; Radacki, Krzysztof; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 50(46), pp. 10847–10850. 2011.
  • Computational and spectroscopic studies of organic mixed-valence compounds: where is the charge?. Kaupp, Martin; Renz, Manuel; Parthey, Matthias; Stolte, Matthias; Würthner, Frank; Lambert, Christoph. In Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 13(38), pp. 16973–16986. 2011.
  • High-Mobility Air-Stable Solution-Shear-Processed n-Channel Organic Transistors Based on Core-Chlorinated Naphthalene Diimides. Lee, Wen-Ya; Oh, Joon Hak; Suraru, Sabin-Lucian; Chen, Wen-Chang; Würthner, Frank; Bao, Zhenan. In Advanced Functional Materials, 21(21), pp. 4173–4181. 2011.
  • A core-extended naphthalene diimide as a p-channel semiconductor. Suraru, Sabin-Lucian; Zschieschang, Ute; Klauk, Hagen; Würthner, Frank. In Chem. Commun., 47(41), pp. 11504–11506. 2011.
  • Photophysical and quantum chemical study on a J-aggregate forming perylene bisimide monomer. Ambrosek, David; Marciniak, Henning; Lochbrunner, Stefan; Tatchen, Jorg; Li, Xue-Qing; Würthner, Frank; Kuhn, Oliver. In Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 13(39), pp. 17649–17657. 2011.
  • Efficient Solution-Processed Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells by Antiparallel Supramolecular Arrangement of Dipolar Donor–Acceptor Dyes. Bürckstümmer, Hannah; Tulyakova, Elena V.; Deppisch, Manuela; Lenze, Martin R.; Kronenberg, Nils M.; Gsänger, Marcel; Stolte, Matthias; Meerholz, Klaus; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 50(49), pp. 11628–11632. 2011.
  • Synthesis and Characterization of Optical and Redox Properties of Bithiophene-Functionalized Diketopyrrolopyrrole Chromophores. Bürckstümmer, Hannah; Weissenstein, Annike; Bialas, David; Würthner, Frank. In The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 76(8), pp. 2426–2432. 2011.
    PMID: 21381701
  • Hydrogen-Bond-Directed Formation of Supramolecular Polymers Incorporating Head-to-Tail Oriented Dipolar Merocyanine Dyes. Schmidt, Ralf; Stolte, Matthias; Grüne, Matthias; Würthner, Frank. In Macromolecules, 44(10), pp. 3766–3776. 2011.
2010[ to top ]
  • Tailored merocyanine dyes for solution-processed BHJ solar cells. Burckstummer, Hannah; Kronenberg, Nils Michael; Gsanger, Marcel; Stolte, Matthias; Meerholz, Klaus; Würthner, Frank. In J. Mater. Chem., 20(2), pp. 240–243. 2010.
  • Collective Fluorescence Blinking in Linear J-Aggregates Assisted by Long-Distance Exciton Migration. Lin, Hongzhen; Camacho, Rafael; Tian, Yuxi; Kaiser, Theo E.; Würthner, Frank; Scheblykin, Ivan G. In Nano Letters, 10(2), pp. 620–626. 2010.
    PMID: 20043661
  • Highly fluorescent water-soluble polyglycerol-dendronized perylene bisimide dyes. Heek, Timm; Fasting, Carlo; Rest, Christina; Zhang, Xin; Würthner, Frank; Haag, Rainer. In Chem. Commun., 46(11), pp. 1884–1886. 2010.
  • Interlayer energy transfer between perylene diimide and phthalocyanine monolayers. Lehtivuori, Heli; Kumpulainen, Tatu; Efimov, Alexander; Lemmetyinen, Helge; Würthner, Frank; Tkachenko, Nikolai V. In Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry, 211(1), pp. 26–31. 2010.
  • Polymer Glass Transitions Switch Electron Transfer in Individual Molecules. Siekierzycka, Joanna R.; Hippius, Catharina; Würthner, Frank; Williams, René M.; Brouwer, Albert M. In J. Am. Chem. Soc., 132(4), pp. 1240–1242. 2010.
    PMID: 20050649
  • Perylene Bisimides with Rigid 2,2′-Biphenol Bridges at Bay Area as Conjugated Chiral Platforms. Xie, Zengqi; Würthner, Frank. In Organic Letters, 12(14), pp. 3204–3207. 2010.
  • A Crystal-Engineered Hydrogen-Bonded Octachloroperylene Diimide with a Twisted Core: An n-Channel Organic Semiconductor. Gsänger, Marcel; Oh, Joon Hak; Könemann, Martin; Höffken, Hans Wolfgang; Krause, Ana-Maria; Bao, Zhenan; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 49(4), pp. 740–743. 2010.
  • Self-assembly and semiconductivity of an oligothiophene supergelator. Pratihar, Pampa; Ghosh, Suhrit; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Patwardhan, Sameer; Grozema, Ferdinand C.; Siebbeles, Laurens D. A.; Würthner, Frank. 2010.
  • FRET and ligand related NON-FRET processes in single quantum dot-perylene bisimide assemblies. Kowerko, Danny; Schuster, Jorg; Amecke, Nicole; Abdel-Mottaleb, Mohammed; Dobrawa, Rainer; Würthner, Frank; von Borczyskowski, Christian. In Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 12(16), pp. 4112–4123. 2010.
  • Broadband femtosecond circular dichroism spectrometer with white-light polarization control. Trifonov, Anton; Buchvarov, Ivan; Lohr, Andreas; Würthner, Frank; Fiebig, Torsten. In Review of Scientific Instruments, 81(4), p. 043104. 2010.
  • Photoinduced Processes in Self-Assembled Porphyrin/Perylene Bisimide Metallosupramolecular Boxes. Indelli, M. Teresa; Chiorboli, Claudio; Scandola, Franco; Iengo, Elisabetta; Osswald, Peter; Würthner, Frank. In The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 114(45), pp. 14495–14504. 2010.
    PMID: 20524702
  • Ultrafast Bidirectional Photoswitching of a Spiropyran. Buback, Johannes; Kullmann, Martin; Langhojer, Florian; Nuernberger, Patrick; Schmidt, Ralf; Würthner, Frank; Brixner, Tobias. In J. Am. Chem. Soc., 132(46), pp. 16510–16519. 2010.
    PMID: 21047082
  • High-Performance Air-Stable n-Type Organic Transistors Based on Core-Chlorinated Naphthalene Tetracarboxylic Diimides. Oh, Joon Hak; Suraru, Sabin–Lucian; Lee, Wen-Ya; Könemann, Martin; Höffken, Hans Wolfgang; Röger, Cornelia; Schmidt, Rüdiger; Chung, Yoonyoung; Chen, Wen-Chang; Würthner, Frank; Bao, Zhenan. In Advanced Functional Materials, 20(13), pp. 2148–2156. 2010.
  • Langmuir−Schaeffer Films from a π−π Stacking Perylenediimide Dye: Organization and Charge Transfer Properties. Tolkki, Antti; Vuorimaa, Elina; Chukharev, Vladimir; Lemmetyinen, Helge; Ihalainen, Petri; Peltonen, Jouko; Dehm, Volker; Würthner, Frank. In Langmuir, 26(9), pp. 6630–6637. 2010.
    PMID: 20025208
  • DABCO-Mediated Self-Assembly of Zinc Porphyrin–Perylene Bisimide Monodisperse Multichromophoric Nanoparticles. Osswald, Peter; You, Chang-Cheng; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Würthner, Frank. In Chemistry – A European Journal, 16(8), pp. 2386–2390. 2010.
  • Organic n-channel thin film transistors based on dichlorinated naphthalene diimides. Stolte, M.; Suraru, S.-L.; Würthner, Frank; Oh, J. H.; Bao, Z.; Brill, J.; Könemann, M.; Qu, J.; Zschieschang, U.; Klauck, H. In Proc.SPIE, 7778, pp. 7778 – 7778 . 2010.
  • Direct Comparison of Highly Efficient Solution- and Vacuum-Processed Organic Solar Cells Based on Merocyanine Dyes. Kronenberg, Nils M.; Steinmann, Vera; Bürckstümmer, Hannah; Hwang, Jaehyung; Hertel, Dirk; Würthner, Frank; Meerholz, Klaus. In Advanced Materials, 22(37), pp. 4193–4197. 2010.
  • Perylene bisimide macrocycles and their self-assembly on HOPG surfaces. Schlosser, Felix; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Würthner, Frank. In Chem. Commun., 46(44), pp. 8350–8352. 2010.
  • Solvent- and Guest-Responsive Self-Assembly of Hamilton Receptor Tethered Bis(merocyanine) Dyes. Schmidt, Ralf; Uemura, Shinobu; Würthner, Frank. In Chemistry – A European Journal, 16(46), pp. 13706–13715. 2010.
  • Theoretical Study of the Optical Properties of Artificial Self-Assembled Zinc Chlorins. Patwardhan, Sameer; Sengupta, Sanchita; Würthner, Frank; Siebbeles, Laurens D. A.; Grozema, Ferdinand. In J. Phys. Chem. C., 114(48), pp. 20834–20842. 2010.
  • Spermine-Functionalized Perylene Bisimide Dyes—Highly Fluorescent Bola-Amphiphiles in Water. Rehm, Stefanie; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Zhang, Xin; Rehm, Thomas H.; Würthner, Frank. In Chemistry – A European Journal, 16(11), pp. 3372–3382. 2010.
  • Chiral Self-Recognition and Self-Discrimination of Strapped Perylene Bisimides by π-Stacking Dimerization. Safont-Sempere, Marina M.; Osswald, Peter; Radacki, Krzysztof; Würthner, Frank. In Chemistry – A European Journal, 16(25), pp. 7380–7384. 2010.
  • Systems Chemistry Approach in Organic Photovoltaics. Würthner, Frank; Meerholz, Klaus. In Chemistry – A European Journal, 16(31), pp. 9366–9373. 2010.
  • Near-Infrared Absorbing Merocyanine Dyes for Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells. Bürckstümmer, Hannah; Kronenberg, Nils M.; Meerholz, Klaus; Würthner, Frank. In Organic Letters, 12(16), pp. 3666–3669. 2010.
    PMID: 20704411
2009[ to top ]
  • Photoinduced Interactions in a Pyrene-Calix[4]arene-Perylene Bisimide Dye System: Probing Ground-State Conformations with Excited-State Dynamics of Charge Separation and Recombination. Vân Anh, Nguyen; Schlosser, Felix; Groeneveld, Michiel M.; van Stokkum, Ivo H. M.; Würthner, Frank; Williams, René M. In J. Phys. Chem. C., 113(42), pp. 18358–18368. 2009.
  • Vibronic Transitions and Quantum Dynamics in Molecular Oligomers: A Theoretical Analysis with an Application to Aggregates of Perylene Bisimides. Seibt, J.; Winkler, T.; Renziehausen, K.; Dehm, V.; Würthner, F.; Meyer, H.-D.; Engel, V. In J. Phys. Chem. A, 113(48), pp. 13475–13482. 2009.
    PMID: 19831416
  • Outstanding Short‐Circuit Currents in BHJ Solar Cells Based on NIR‐Absorbing Acceptor‐Substituted Squaraines. Mayerhöffer, Ulrich; Deing, Kaja; Gruß, Katrin; Braunschweig, Holger; Meerholz, Klaus; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 48(46), pp. 8776–8779. 2009.
  • Understanding Ground- and Excited-State Properties of Perylene Tetracarboxylic Acid Bisimide Crystals by Means of Quantum Chemical Computations. Zhao, Hong-Mei; Pfister, Johannes; Settels, Volker; Renz, Manuel; Kaupp, Martin; Dehm, Volker C.; Würthner, Frank; Fink, Reinhold F.; Engels, Bernd. In J. Am. Chem. Soc., 131(43), pp. 15660–15668. 2009.
    PMID: 19860479
  • Electronic structure of epitaxial thin films of bay-substituted perylene bisimide dyes. Scholz, Markus; Schmidt, Rüdiger; Krause, Stefan; Schöll, Achim; Reinert, Friedrich; Würthner, Frank. In Applied Physics A, 95(1), pp. 285–290. 2009.
  • Self-Assembly of Semiconductor Organogelator Nanowires for Photoinduced Charge Separation. Wicklein, André; Ghosh, Suhrit; Sommer, Michael; Würthner, Frank; Thelakkat, Mukundan. In ACS Nano, 3(5), pp. 1107–1114. 2009.
    PMID: 19408933
  • Dendritic oligothiophene-perylene bisimide hybrids: synthesis, optical and electrochemical properties. Fischer, Markus K. R.; Kaiser, Theo E.; Würthner, Frank; Bauerle, Peter. In J. Mater. Chem., 19(8), pp. 1129–1141. 2009.
  • Bay-substituted perylene bisimides: Twisted fluorophores for supramolecular chemistry. Würthner, Frank. In The Scientific Journal of IUPAC, Pure Appl. Chem.(78), pp. 2341–2350. 2009.
  • Trimeric Cyclic Assemblies of Calix[4]arene-Tethered Bismerocyanines. Lohr, Andreas; Uemura, Shinobu; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 48(33), pp. 6165–6168. 2009.
  • Self-Assembly of Bis(merocyanine) Tweezers into Discrete Bimolecular π-Stacks. Lohr, Andreas; Grüne, Matthias; Würthner, Frank. In Chemistry – A European Journal, 15(15), pp. 3691–3705. 2009.
  • Photoblinking dynamics in single calix[4]arene-linked perylene bisimide dimers. Ernst, Dominique; Hildner, Richard; Hippius, Catharina; Würthner, Frank; Köhler, Jürgen. In Chemical Physics Letters, 482(1), pp. 93–98. 2009.
  • X-ray/Atomic Force Microscopy Study of the Temperature-Dependent Multilayer Structure of PTCDI-C8 Films on SiO2. Krauss, Tobias N.; Barrena, Esther; de Oteyza, Dimas G.; Zhang, Xue N.; Major, János; Dehm, Volker; Würthner, Frank; Dosch, Helmut. In J. Phys. Chem. C., 113(11), pp. 4502–4506. 2009.
  • Synthetic Routes to Core-fluorinated Perylene Bisimide Dyes and their Properties. Schmidt, R.; Osswald, P.; Könemann, M.; Würthner, Frank. In Z. Naturforsch., 64b, pp. 735–746. 2009.
  • Zinc chlorins for artificial light-harvesting self-assemble into antiparallel stacks forming a microcrystalline solid-state material. Ganapathy, Swapna; Sengupta, Sanchita; Wawrzyniak, Piotr K.; Huber, Valerie; Buda, Francesco; Baumeister, Ute; Würthner, Frank; de Groot, Huub J. M. In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(28), pp. 11472–11477. 2009.
  • Unconventional hydrogen-bond-directed hierarchical co-assembly between perylene bisimide and azobenzene-functionalized melamine. Yagai, Shiki; Hamamura, Saori; Wang, Hao; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Seki, Tomohiro; Unoike, Kanako; Kikkawa, Yoshihiro; Karatsu, Takashi; Kitamura, Akihide; Würthner, Frank. In Org. Biomol. Chem., 7(19), pp. 3926–3929. 2009.
  • Step-wise self-assembly of a small molecule with two orthogonal binding interactions leads to single stranded linear polymers in DMSO. Groger, Gerd; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Würthner, Frank; Schmuck, Carsten. In Chem. Commun., (6), pp. 698–700. 2009.
  • Temperature-Dependent Exciton Dynamics in J-Aggregates—When Disorder Plays a Role. Kaiser, Theo E.; Scheblykin, Ivan G.; Thomsson, Daniel; Würthner, Frank. In The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 113(48), pp. 15836–15842. 2009.
    PMID: 19754082
  • Cyclic Self-Assembled Structures of Chlorophyll Dyes on HOPG by the Dendron Wedge Effect. Uemura, Shinobu; Sengupta, Sanchita; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 48(42), pp. 7825–7828. 2009.
  • 5-Bromo-17-nitro-26,28-prop-2-en­­oxy-25,27-dipropoxycalix[4]arene. Hippius, Catharina; Würthner, Frank; Bolte, Michael. In Acta Crystallographica Section E, 65(3), p. o617. 2009.
  • Self-assembly of double-decker cages induced by coordination of perylene bisimide with a trimeric Zn porphyrin: study of the electron transfer dynamics between the two photoactive components. Oliva, Ana I.; Ventura, Barbara; Würthner, Frank; Camara-Campos, Amaya; Hunter, Christopher A.; Ballester, Pablo; Flamigni, Lucia. In Dalton Trans., (20), pp. 4023–4037. 2009.
  • High-Performance Air-Stable n-Channel Organic Thin Film Transistors Based on Halogenated Perylene Bisimide Semiconductors. Schmidt, Rüdiger; Oh, Joon Hak; Sun, Ya-Sen; Deppisch, Manuela; Krause, Ana-Maria; Radacki, Krzysztof; Braunschweig, Holger; Könemann, Martin; Erk, Peter; Bao, Zhenan; Würthner, Frank. In J. Am. Chem. Soc., 131(17), pp. 6215–6228. 2009.
    PMID: 19354212
  • Supramolecular self-assembled multilayers of terpyridine-functionalized perylene bisimide metal complexes. Tuccitto, N.; Delfanti, I.; Torrisi, V.; Scandola, F.; Chiorboli, C.; Stepanenko, V.; Würthner, Frank; Licciardello, A. In Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 11(20), pp. 4033–4038. 2009.
  • Self-assembly and layer-by-layer deposition of metallosupramolecular perylene bisimide polymers. Stepanenko, Vladimir; Stocker, Michael; Muller, Paul; Buchner, Michael; Würthner, Frank. In J. Mater. Chem., 19(37), pp. 6816–6826. 2009.
  • Vesicular perylene dye nanocapsules as supramolecular fluorescent pH sensor systems. Zhang, Xin; Rehm, Stefanie; Safont-Sempere, Marina M.; Würthner, Frank. In Nat Chem, 1(8), pp. 623–629. 2009.
  • Core-Tetrasubstituted Naphthalene Diimides by Stille Cross-Coupling Reactions and Characterization of Their Optical and Redox Properties. Suraru, Sabin-Lucian; Würthner, Frank. G. T. V. Stuttgart (ed.). 2009.
  • Self-assembled [small pi]-stacks of functional dyes in solution: structural and thermodynamic features. Chen, Zhijian; Lohr, Andreas; Saha-Moller, Chantu R.; Würthner, Frank. In Chem. Soc. Rev., 38(2), pp. 564–584. 2009.
  • Fluorescent J-Aggregates of Core-Substituted Perylene Bisimides: Studies on Structure−Property Relationship, Nucleation−Elongation Mechanism, and Sergeants-and-Soldiers Principle. Kaiser, Theo E.; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Würthner, Frank. In J. Am. Chem. Soc., 131(19), pp. 6719–6732. 2009.
    PMID: 19388696
  • Interplay between Energetic and Kinetic Factors on the Ambient Stability of n-Channel Organic Transistors Based on Perylene Diimide Derivatives. Oh, Joon Hak; Sun, Ya-Sen; Schmidt, Rüdiger; Toney, Michael F.; Nordlund, Dennis; Könemann, Martin; Würthner, Frank; Bao, Zhenan. In Chemistry of Materials, 21(22), pp. 5508–5518. 2009.
2008[ to top ]
  • Exciton Trapping in π-Conjugated Materials: A Quantum-Chemistry-Based Protocol Applied to Perylene Bisimide Dye Aggregates. Fink, Reinhold F.; Seibt, Joachim; Engel, Volker; Renz, Manuel; Kaupp, Martin; Lochbrunner, Stefan; Zhao, Hong-Mei; Pfister, Johannes; Würthner, Frank; Engels, Bernd. In J. Am. Chem. Soc., 130(39), pp. 12858–12859. 2008.
    PMID: 18767851
  • Hierarchical Self-Assembly of Cyclic Dye Arrays into Two-Dimensional Honeycomb Nanonetworks. Stepanenko, Vladimir; Würthner, Frank. In Small, 4(12), pp. 2158–2161. 2008.
  • Sequential FRET Processes in Calix[4]arene-Linked Orange-Red-Green Perylene Bisimide Dye Zigzag Arrays. Hippius, Catharina; van Stokkum, Ivo H. M.; Gsänger, Marcel; Groeneveld, Michiel M.; Williams, René M.; Würthner, Frank. In The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 112(7), pp. 2476–2486. 2008.
  • Highly Fluorescent Lyotropic Mesophases and Organogels Based on J-Aggregates of Core-Twisted Perylene Bisimide Dyes. Li, Xue-Qing; Zhang, Xin; Ghosh, Suhrit; Würthner, Frank. In Chemistry – A European Journal, 14(27), pp. 8074–8078. 2008.
  • Three-Dimensional Molecular Packing of Thin Organic Films of PTCDI-C8 Determined by Surface X-ray Diffraction. Krauss, Tobias N.; Barrena, Esther; Zhang, Xue N.; de Oteyza, Dimas G.; Major, János; Dehm, Volker; Würthner, Frank; Cavalcanti, Leide P.; Dosch, Helmut. In Langmuir, 24(22), pp. 12742–12744. 2008.
  • Time-dependent amplification of helical bias in self-assembled dye nanorods directed by the sergeants-and-soldiers principle. Lohr, Andreas; Würthner, Frank. In Chem. Commun., (19), pp. 2227–2229. 2008.
  • Perylene bisimide J-aggregates with absorption maxima in the NIR. Wang, Hao; Kaiser, Theo E.; Uemura, Shinobu; Würthner, Frank. In Chem. Commun., (10), pp. 1181–1183. 2008.
  • Solvent Effect on Color, Band Shape, and Charge-Density Distribution for Merocyanine Dyes Close to the Cyanine Limit. Würthner, Frank; Archetti, Graziano; Schmidt, Ralf; Kuball, Hans-Georg. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 47(24), pp. 4529–4532. 2008.
  • Synthesis, Optical Properties, and LFER Analysis of Solvent-Dependent Binding Constants of Hamilton-Receptor-Connected Merocyanine Chromophores. Schmidt, Johann; Schmidt, Ralf; Würthner, Frank. In The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 73(16), pp. 6355–6362. 2008.
    PMID: 18642873
  • Photophysical study of bay substituted perylenediimides. Fron, Eduard; Schweitzer, Gerd; Osswald, Peter; Würthner, Frank; Marsal, Philippe; Beljonne, David; Mullen, Klaus; De Schryver, Frans C.; Van der Auweraer, Mark. In Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 7(12), pp. 1509–1521. 2008.
  • A New Type of Soft Vesicle-Forming Molecule:  An Amino Acid Derived Guanidiniocarbonyl Pyrrole Carboxylate Zwitterion. Rehm, Thomas; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Zhang, Xin; Würthner, Frank; Gröhn, Franziska; Klein, Katja; Schmuck, Carsten. In Organic Letters, 10(7), pp. 1469–1472. 2008.
    PMID: 18311995
  • Control of H- and J-Type π Stacking by Peripheral Alkyl Chains and Self-Sorting Phenomena in Perylene Bisimide Homo- and Heteroaggregates. Ghosh, Suhrit; Li, Xue-Qing; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Würthner, Frank. In Chemistry – A European Journal, 14(36), pp. 11343–11357. 2008.
  • Visualization of Various Supramolecular Assemblies of Oligo(para-phenylenevinylene)–Melamine and Perylene Bisimide. Hoeben, Freek J. M.; Zhang, Jian; Lee, Cameron C.; Pouderoijen, Maarten J.; Wolffs, Martin; Würthner, Frank; Schenning, Albertus P. H. J.; Meijer, E. W.; De Feyter, Steven. In Chemistry – A European Journal, 14(28), pp. 8579–8589. 2008.
  • Evolution of Homochiral Helical Dye Assemblies: Involvement of Autocatalysis in the "Majority-Rules" Effect. Lohr, A.; Würthner, F. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 47, pp. 1232–1236. 2008.
  • Structure–Property Relationships for Self-Assembled Zinc Chlorin Light-Harvesting Dye Aggregates. Huber, Valerie; Sengupta, Sanchita; Würthner, Frank. In Chemistry – A European Journal, 14(26), pp. 7791–7807. 2008.
  • Ground- and Excited-State Pinched Cone Equilibria in Calix[4]arenes Bearing Two Perylene Bisimide Dyes. Hippius, Catharina; van Stokkum, Ivo H. M.; Zangrando, Ennio; Williams, René M.; Wykes, Michael; Beljonne, David; Würthner, Frank. In The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 112(37), pp. 14626–14638. 2008.
  • Circular dichroism spectroscopy of small molecular aggregates: Dynamical features and size effects. Seibt, Joachim; Dehm, Volker; Würthner, Frank; Engel, Volker. In The Journal of Chemical Physics, 128(20), p. 204303. 2008.
  • Electrochemical gate-controlled electron transport of redox-active single perylene bisimide molecular junctions. Li, C; Mishchenko, A; Li, Z; Pobelov, I; Wandlowski, Th; Li, X Q; Würthner, F; Bagrets, A; Evers, F. In Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 20(37), p. 374122. 2008.
  • Identification of oligo(p-phenylene vinylene)-naphthalene diimide heterocomplexes by scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy at the liquid-solid interface. De Cat, Inge; Roger, Cornelia; Lee, Cameron C.; Hoeben, Freek J. M.; Pouderoijen, Maarten J.; Schenning, Albertus P. H. J.; Würthner, Frank; De Feyter, Steven. In Chem. Commun., (43), pp. 5496–5498. 2008.
  • Transformation from H- to J-Aggregated Perylene Bisimide Dyes by Complexation with Cyanurates. Yagai, Shiki; Seki, Tomohiro; Karatsu, Takashi; Kitamura, Akihide; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 47(18), pp. 3367–3371. 2008.
  • Self-Assembled Zinc Chlorin Rod Antennae Powered by Peripheral Light-Harvesting Chromophores. Röger, Cornelia; Miloslavina, Yuliya; Brunner, Doris; Holzwarth, Alfred R.; Würthner, Frank. In J. Am. Chem. Soc., 130(18), pp. 5929–5939. 2008.
  • A Black Perylene Bisimide Super Gelator with an Unexpected J-Type Absorption Band. Würthner, Frank; Bauer, Christoph; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Yagai, Shiki. In Advanced Materials, 20(9), pp. 1695–1698. 2008.
  • Photoinduced Energy and Electron-Transfer Processes in Porphyrin−Perylene Bisimide Symmetric Triads. Ghirotti, Marco; Chiorboli, Claudio; You, Chang-Cheng; Würthner, Frank; Scandola, Franco. In The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 112(15), pp. 3376–3385. 2008.
    PMID: 18335911
  • Bulk heterojunction organic solar cells based on merocyanine colorants. Kronenberg, Nils M.; Deppisch, Manuela; Würthner, Frank; Lademann, Hans W. A.; Deing, Kaja; Meerholz, Klaus. In Chem. Commun., (48), pp. 6489–6491. 2008.
  • Toward Fluorescent Memories with Nondestructive Readout: Photoswitching of Fluorescence by Intramolecular Electron Transfer in a Diaryl Ethene-Perylene Bisimide Photochromic System. Berberich, Martin; Krause, Ana-Maria; Orlandi, Michele; Scandola, Franco; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 47(35), pp. 6616–6619. 2008.
2007[ to top ]
  • Synthesis and Optical Properties of Fluorescent Core-Trisubstituted Naphthalene Diimide Dyes. Röger, Cornelia; Ahmed, Shahadat; Würthner, Frank. 2007.
  • Photophysical Characterization of a Light-Harvesting Tetra Naphthalene Imide/Perylene Bisimide Array. Flamigni, Lucia; Ventura, Barbara; You, Chang-Cheng; Hippius, Catharina; Würthner, Frank. In J. Phys. Chem. C., 111(2), pp. 622–630. 2007.
  • Morphology Control of Fluorescent Nanoaggregates by Co-Self-Assembly of Wedge- and Dumbbell-Shaped Amphiphilic Perylene Bisimides. Zhang, Xin; Chen, Zhijian; Würthner, Frank. In J. Am. Chem. Soc., 129(16), pp. 4886–4887. 2007.
    PMID: 17402739
  • Circular dichroism and absorption spectroscopy of merocyanine dimer aggregates: molecular properties and exciton transfer dynamics from time-dependent quantum calculations. Seibt, Joachim; Lohr, Andreas; Würthner, Frank; Engel, Volker. In Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 9(47), pp. 6214–6218. 2007.
  • Core-Fluorinated Perylene Bisimide Dyes: Air Stable n-Channel Organic Semiconductors for Thin Film Transistors with Exceptionally High On-to-Off Current Ratios. Schmidt, R.; Ling, M. M.; Oh, J. H.; Winkler, M.; Könemann, M.; Bao, Z.; Würthner, F. In Advanced Materials, 19(21), pp. 3692–3695. 2007.
  • Self-Assembly of Semifluorinated Minidendrons Attached to Electron-Acceptor Groups into Pyramidal Columns. Percec, Virgil; Aqad, Emad; Peterca, Mihai; Imam, Mohammad R.; Glodde, Martin; Bera, Tusha K.; Miura, Yoshiko; Balagurusamy, Venkatachalapathy S. K.; Ewbank, Paul C.; Würthner, Frank; Heiney, Paul A. In Chemistry – A European Journal, 13(12), pp. 3330–3345. 2007.
  • Excited State Interactions in Calix[4]arene−Perylene Bisimide Dye Conjugates:  Global and Target Analysis of Supramolecular Building Blocks. Hippius, Catharina; van Stokkum, Ivo H. M.; Zangrando, E.; Williams, René M.; Würthner, Frank. In J. Phys. Chem. C., 111(37), pp. 13988–13996. 2007.
  • Photoluminescence and Conductivity of Self-Assembled π–π Stacks of Perylene Bisimide Dyes. Chen, Zhijian; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Dehm, Volker; Prins, Paulette; Siebbeles, Laurens D. A.; Seibt, Joachim; Marquetand, Philipp; Engel, Volker; Würthner, Frank. In Chemistry – A European Journal, 13(2), pp. 436–449. 2007.
  • Perylene Bisimide Atropisomers:  Synthesis, Resolution, and Stereochemical Assignment. Osswald, Peter; Reichert, Matthias; Bringmann, Gerhard; Würthner, Frank. In The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 72(9), pp. 3403–3411. 2007.
    PMID: 17388634
  • Effect of Core Twisting on Self-Assembly and Optical Properties of Perylene Bisimide Dyes in Solution and Columnar Liquid Crystalline Phases. Chen, Zhijian; Baumeister, Ute; Tschierske, Carsten; Würthner, Frank. In Chemistry – A European Journal, 13(2), pp. 450–465. 2007.
  • Absorption spectroscopy of molecular trimers. Seibt, Joachim; Dehm, Volker; Würthner, Frank; Engel, Volker. In The Journal of Chemical Physics, 126(16), p. 164308. 2007.
  • Air-stable n-channel organic thin-film transistors with high field-effect mobility based on N,N′-bis(heptafluorobutyl)-3,4:9,10-perylene diimide. Oh, Joon Hak; Liu, Shuhong; Bao, Zhenan; Schmidt, Rüdiger; Würthner, Frank. In Applied Physics Letters, 91(21), p. 212107. 2007.
  • Conformational Effects of Bay Substituents on Optical, Electrochemical and Dynamic Properties of Perylene Bisimides: Macrocyclic Derivatives as Effective Probes. Osswald, Peter; Würthner, Frank. In Chemistry – A European Journal, 13(26), pp. 7395–7409. 2007.
  • Synthesis of Merocyanine Dye Nanorods: The Importance of Solvent, Kinetic and Thermodynamic Control, and Steric Effects on Self-Assembly. Lohr, Andreas; Gress, Tobias; Deppisch, Manuela; Knoll, Marina; Würthner, Frank. 2007.
  • Core-Tetrasubstituted Naphthalene Diimides:  Synthesis, Optical Properties, and Redox Characteristics. Röger, Cornelia; Würthner, Frank. In The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 72(21), pp. 8070–8075. 2007.
    PMID: 17887710
  • Effects of Bay Substituents on the Racemization Barriers of Perylene Bisimides:  Resolution of Atropo-Enantiomers. Osswald, Peter; Würthner, Frank. In J. Am. Chem. Soc., 129(46), pp. 14319–14326. 2007.
    PMID: 17963383
  • Self-Assembled Single- and Double-Stack π-Aggregates of Chlorophyll Derivatives on Highly Ordered Pyrolytic Graphite. Huber, Valerie; Lysetska, Marina; Würthner, Frank. In Small, 3(6), pp. 1007–1014. 2007.
  • Electroactive Polymeric Networks Created by Oxidation of Oligothiophene-Functionalized Perylene Bisimides. You, C.-C.; Espindola, P.; Hippius, C.; Heinze, J.; Würthner, F. In Advanced Functional Materials, 17(18), pp. 3764–3772. 2007.
  • Helical Growth of Semiconducting Columnar Dye Assemblies Based on Chiral Perylene Bisimides. Dehm, Volker; Chen, Zhijian; Baumeister, Ute; Prins, Paulette; Siebbeles, Laurens D. A.; Würthner, Frank. In Organic Letters, 9(6), pp. 1085–1088. 2007.
    PMID: 17300201
  • Supramolecular Construction of Fluorescent J-Aggregates Based on Hydrogen-Bonded Perylene Dyes. Kaiser, Theo E.; Wang, Hao; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 46(29), pp. 5541–5544. 2007.
  • Comparison of the Photophysical Parameters for Three Perylene Bisimide Derivatives by Single-Molecule Spectroscopy. Lang, Erwin; Hildner, Richard; Engelke, Hanna; Osswald, Peter; Würthner, Frank; Köhler, Jürgen. In ChemPhysChem, 8(10), pp. 1487–1496. 2007.
2006[ to top ]
  • Thermodynamics of 2,2’:6’,2”-Terpyridine-Metal Ion Complexation. Dobrawa, R.; Ballester, P.; Saha-Möller, C. R.; Würthner, Frank. In American Chemical Society, ACS Symposium Series 928(928), U. S. Schubert; G. R. Newkome; I. Manners (eds.), pp. Chapter 4, 43–. 2006.
    Full paper
  • Photoproduction of Proton Gradients with π-Stacked Fluorophore Scaffolds in Lipid Bilayers. Bhosale, Sheshanath; Sisson, Adam L.; Talukdar, Pinaki; Fürstenberg, Alexandre; Banerji, Natalie; Vauthey, Eric; Bollot, Guillaume; Mareda, Jiri; Röger, Cornelia; Würthner, Frank; Sakai, Naomi; Matile, Stefan. In Science, 313(5783), pp. 84–86. 2006.
  • Highly soluble acenes as semiconductors for thin film transistors. Schmidt, Rudiger; Gottling, Silke; Leusser, Dirk; Stalke, Dietmar; Krause, Ana-Maria; Würthner, Frank. In J. Mater. Chem., 16(37), pp. 3708–3714. 2006.
  • One-dimensional luminescent nanoaggregates of perylene bisimides. Würthner, Frank; Chen, Zhijian; Dehm, Volker; Stepanenko, Vladimir. In Chem. Commun., (11), pp. 1188–1190. 2006.
  • Rigid-Rod Metallosupramolecular Polymers of Dendronized Diazadibenzoperylene Dyes. Würthner, Frank; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Sautter, Armin. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 45(12), pp. 1939–1942. 2006.
  • Synthesis and Optical and Redox Properties of Core-Substituted Naphthalene Diimide Dyes. Thalacker, Christoph; Röger, Cornelia; Würthner, Frank. In The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 71(21), pp. 8098–8105. 2006.
    PMID: 17025298
  • Supramolecular chemistry at the liquid/solid interface probed by scanning tunnelling microscopy. De Feyter, S.; Miura, A.; Uji-I, H.; Mamdouh, W.; Zhang, J.; Jonkheijm, P.; Schenning, A. P. H. J.; Meijer, E. W.; Chen, Z.; Würthner, F.; Schuurmans, N.; van Esch, J.; Feringa, B. L.; Dulcey, A. E.; Percec, V.; De Schryver, F. C. In Int. J. Nanotechnology, 3(No. 4), pp. 462–479. 2006.
  • Efficient Energy Transfer from Peripheral Chromophores to the Self-Assembled Zinc Chlorin Rod Antenna:  A Bioinspired Light-Harvesting System to Bridge the “Green Gap.”. Röger, Cornelia; Müller, Marc G.; Lysetska, Marina; Miloslavina, Yulia; Holzwarth, Alfred R.; Würthner, Frank. In J. Am. Chem. Soc., 128(20), pp. 6542–6543. 2006.
    PMID: 16704238
  • Fluorescent H-Aggregates of Merocyanine Dyes. Rösch, Ulrich; Yao, Sheng; Wortmann, Rüdiger; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 45(42), pp. 7026–7030. 2006.
  • Control of Ambipolar Thin Film Architectures by Co-Self-Assembling Oligo(p-phenylenevinylene)s and Perylene Bisimides. Jonkheijm, Pascal; Stutzmann, Natalie; Chen, Zhijian; de Leeuw, Dago M.; Meijer, E. W.; Schenning, Albertus P. H. J.; Würthner, Frank. In J. Am. Chem. Soc., 128(29), pp. 9535–9540. 2006.
    PMID: 16848491
  • Influence of Intermolecular Orientation on the Photoinduced Charge Transfer Kinetics in Self-Assembled Aggregates of Donor−Acceptor Arrays. Beckers, Edwin H. A.; Meskers, Stefan C. J.; Schenning, Albertus P. H. J.; Chen, Zhijian; Würthner, Frank; Marsal, Philippe; Beljonne, David; Cornil, Jérôme; Janssen, René A. J. In J. Am. Chem. Soc., 128(2), pp. 649–657. 2006.
    PMID: 16402853
  • On the geometry dependence of molecular dimer spectra with an application to aggregates of perylene bisimide. Seibt, J.; Marquetand, P.; Engel, Volker; Chen, Z.; Dehm, V.; Würthner, F. In Chemical Physics, 328(1), pp. 354–362. 2006.
  • Functional organogels from highly efficient organogelator based on perylene bisimide semiconductor. Li, Xue-Qing; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Chen, Zhijian; Prins, Paulette; Siebbeles, Laurens D. A.; Würthner, Frank. In Chem. Commun., (37), pp. 3871–3873. 2006.
  • Energy Transfer in Calixarene-Based Cofacial-Positioned Perylene Bisimide Arrays. Hippius, Catharina; Schlosser, Felix; Vysotsky, Myroslav O.; Böhmer, Volker; Würthner, Frank. In J. Am. Chem. Soc., 128(12), pp. 3870–3871. 2006.
    PMID: 16551069
  • Light-Harvesting Metallosupramolecular Squares Composed of Perylene Bisimide Walls and Fluorescent Antenna Dyes. You, Chang-Cheng; Hippius, Catharina; Grüne, Matthias; Würthner, Frank. In Chemistry – A European Journal, 12(28), pp. 7510–7519. 2006.
  • Generating a Photocurrent on the Nanometer Scale. Würthner, Frank. In Science, 314(5806), pp. 1693–1694. 2006.
  • Synthesis and Optical and Electrochemical Properties of Core-Fluorinated Perylene Bisimides. Würthner, Frank; Osswald, Peter; Schmidt, Rüdiger; Kaiser, Theo E.; Mansikkamäki, Heidi; Könemann, Martin. In Organic Letters, 8(17), pp. 3765–3768. 2006.
    PMID: 16898812
  • The Importance of Nanoscopic Ordering on the Kinetics of Photoinduced Charge Transfer in Aggregated π-Conjugated Hydrogen-Bonded Donor−Acceptor Systems. Beckers, Edwin H. A.; Chen, Zhijian; Meskers, Stefan C. J.; Jonkheijm, Pascal; Schenning, Albertus P. H. J.; Li, Xue-Qing; Osswald, Peter; Würthner, Frank; Janssen, René A. J. In The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 110(34), pp. 16967–16978. 2006.
    PMID: 16927989
  • Hydrogen-Bond-Directed Head-to-Tail Orientation of Dipolar Merocyanine Dyes: A Strategy for the Design of Electrooptical Materials. Würthner, Frank; Schmidt, Johann; Stolte, Matthias; Wortmann, Rüdiger. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 45(23), pp. 3842–3846. 2006.
  • Electronic and Crystal Engineering of Acenes for Solution-Processible Self-Assembling Organic Semiconductors. Würthner, Frank; Schmidt, Rüdiger. In ChemPhysChem, 7(4), pp. 793–797. 2006.
2005[ to top ]
  • Dramatic increase in charge carrier lifetime in a liquid crystalline perylene bisimide derivative upon bay substitution with chlorine. Debije, Michael G.; Chen, Zhijian; Piris, Jorge; Neder, Reinhard B.; Watson, Mark M.; Mullen, Klaus; Würthner, Frank. In J. Mater. Chem., 15(12), pp. 1270–1276. 2005.
  • Photophysical Properties of a Tetraphenoxy-Substituted Perylene Bisimide Derivative Characterized by Single-Molecule Spectroscopy. Lang, Erwin; Würthner, Frank; Köhler, Jürgen. In ChemPhysChem, 6(5), pp. 935–941. 2005.
  • Hydrogen bond directed self-assembly of core-substituted naphthalene bisimides with melamines in solution and at the graphite interface. Thalacker, Christoph; Miura, Atsushi; De Feyter, Steven; De Schryver, Frans C.; Würthner, Frank. In Org. Biomol. Chem., 3(3), pp. 414–422. 2005.
  • Perylene Bisimide Based Macrocycles: Effective Probes for the Assessment of Conformational Effects on Optical Properties. Osswald, Peter; Leusser, Dirk; Stalke, Dietmar; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 44(2), pp. 250–253. 2005.
  • DNA-Binding Fourfold Spermine Functionalized Perylene Bisimide Dye. Krauß, Stefanie; Lysetska, Marina; Würthner, Frank. In Letters in Organic Chemistry, 2(4), pp. 349–353. 2005.
  • Reversible Self-Organization of Semisynthetic Zinc Chlorins into Well-Defined Rod Antennae. Huber, Valerie; Katterle, Martin; Lysetska, Marina; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 44(20), pp. 3147–3151. 2005.
  • Gelation of a Highly Fluorescent Urea-Functionalized Perylene Bisimide Dye. Würthner, Frank; Hanke, Bertil; Lysetska, Marina; Lambright, Geoffrey; Harms, Gregory S. In Organic Letters, 7(6), pp. 967–970. 2005.
    PMID: 15760115
  • Fluorescent Supramolecular Polymers:  Metal Directed Self-Assembly of Perylene Bisimide Building Blocks. Dobrawa, Rainer; Lysetska, Marina; Ballester, Pablo; Grüne, Matthias; Würthner, Frank. In Macromolecules, 38(4), pp. 1315–1325. 2005.
  • Two-Dimensional Self-Assembly into Multicomponent Hydrogen-Bonded Nanostructures. De Feyter, Steven; Miura, Atsushi; Yao, Sheng; Chen, Zhijian; Würthner, Frank; Jonkheijm, Pascal; Schenning, Albertus P. H. J.; Meijer, E. W.; De Schryver, Frans C. In Nano Letters, 5(1), pp. 77–81. 2005.
    PMID: 15792416
  • Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Spectroscopy of Donor–Acceptor–Donor Triads at the Liquid/Solid Interface. Uji i, Hiroshi; Miura, Atsushi; Schenning, Albert; Meijer, E. W.; Chen, Zhijian; Würthner, Frank; De Schryver, Frans C.; Van der Auweraer, Mark; De Feyter, Steven. In ChemPhysChem, 6(11), pp. 2389–2395. 2005.
  • Supramolecular Stereomutation in Kinetic and Thermodynamic Self-Assembly of Helical Merocyanine Dye Nanorods. Lohr, Andreas; Lysetska, Marina; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 44(32), pp. 5071–5074. 2005.
  • Metallosupramolecular Dye Assemblies. You, Chang-Cheng; Dobrawa, Rainer; Saha-Möller, Chantu R.; Würthner, Frank. In Supermolecular Dye Chemistry, F. Würthner (ed.), pp. 39–82. 2005.
  • Solvent-Dependent Vibrational Frequencies and Reorganization Energies of Two Merocyanine Chromophores. Leng, Weinan; Würthner, Frank; Kelley, Anne Myers. In J. Phys. Chem. A, 109(8), pp. 1570–1575. 2005.
    PMID: 16833479
  • Ultrafast Energy-Electron Transfer Cascade in a Multichromophoric Light-Harvesting Molecular Square. Sautter, Armin; Kaletaş, Başak Kükrer; Schmid, Dietmar G.; Dobrawa, Rainer; Zimine, Mikhail; Jung, Günther; van Stokkum, Ivo H. M.; De Cola, Luisa; Williams, René M.; Würthner, Frank. In J. Am. Chem. Soc., 127(18), pp. 6719–6729. 2005.
    PMID: 15869294
  • Wavelength-Dependent Electron and Energy Transfer Pathways in a Side-to-Face Ruthenium Porphyrin/Perylene Bisimide Assembly. Prodi, Anna; Chiorboli, Claudio; Scandola, Franco; Iengo, Elisabetta; Alessio, Enzo; Dobrawa, Rainer; Würthner, Frank. In J. Am. Chem. Soc., 127(5), pp. 1454–1462. 2005.
    PMID: 15686378
  • Metallosupramolecular approach toward functional coordination polymers. Dobrawa, Rainer; Würthner, Frank. In Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry, 43(21), pp. 4981–4995. 2005.
2004[ to top ]
  • Resonance Raman Intensity Analysis of Merocyanine Dimers in Solution. Leng, Weinan; Würthner, Frank; Kelley, Anne Myers. In The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 108(29), pp. 10284–10294. 2004.
  • Charge Separation and Recombination in Photoexcited Oligo(p-phenylene vinylene):  Perylene Bisimide Arrays Close to the Marcus Inverted Region. Beckers, Edwin H. A.; Meskers, Stefan C. J.; Schenning, Albertus P. H. J.; Chen, Zhijian; Würthner, Frank; Janssen, René A. J. In The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 108(34), pp. 6933–6937. 2004.
  • Synthesis and electropolymerization of novel oligothiophene-functionalized perylene bisimides. You, Chang-Cheng; Saha-Moller, Chantu R.; Würthner, Frank. In Chem. Commun., (18), pp. 2030–2031. 2004.
  • Supramolecular Polymerization and Gel Formation of Bis(Merocyanine) Dyes Driven by Dipolar Aggregation. Yao, Sheng; Beginn, Uwe; Gress, Tobias; Lysetska, Marina; Würthner, Frank. In J. Am. Chem. Soc., 126(26), pp. 8336–8348. 2004.
    PMID: 15225077
  • Tetrachloro-substituted Perylene Bisimide Dyes as Promising n-Type Organic Semiconductors: Studies on Structural, Electrochemical and Charge Transport Properties. Chen, Zhijian; Debije, Michael G.; Debaerdemaeker, Tony; Osswald, Peter; Würthner, Frank. In ChemPhysChem, 5(1), pp. 137–140. 2004.
  • Preparation and Characterization of Regioisomerically Pure 1,7-Disubstituted Perylene Bisimide Dyes. Würthner, Frank; Stepanenko, Vladimir; Chen, Zhijian; Saha-Möller, Chantu R.; Kocher, Nikolaus; Stalke, Dietmar. In The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 69(23), pp. 7933–7939. 2004.
    PMID: 15527273
  • Towards supramolecular electronics. Schenning, A.P.H.J.; Jonkheijm, P.; Hoeben, F.J.M.; van Herrikhuyzen, J.; Meskers, S.C.J.; Meijer, E.W.; Herz, L.M.; Daniel, C.; Silva, C.; Phillips, R.T.; Friend, R.H.; Beljonne, D.; Miura, A.; Feyter, S. De; Zdanowska, M.; Uji i, H.; Schryver, F.C. De; Chen, Z.; Würthner, Frank; Mas-Torrent, M.; den Boer, D.; Durkut, M.; Hadley, P. In Synthetic Metals, 147(1), pp. 43–48. 2004.
    Supramolecular approaches to organic electronics and nanotechnology. Proceedings of Symposium F. E-MRS Spring Meeting.
  • Metallosupramolecular squares: from structure to function. Würthner, Frank; You, Chang-Cheng; Saha-Moller, Chantu R. In Chem. Soc. Rev., 33(3), pp. 133–146. 2004.
  • Perylene bisimide dyes as versatile building blocks for functional supramolecular architectures. Würthner, Frank. In Chem. Commun., (14), pp. 1564–1579. 2004.
  • Photoinduced Electron and Energy Transfer Processes in a Bichromophoric Pyrene−Perylene Bisimide System. Kaletaş, Başak Kükrer; Dobrawa, Rainer; Sautter, Armin; Würthner, Frank; Zimine, Mikhail; De Cola, Luisa; Williams, René M. In The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 108(11), pp. 1900–1909. 2004.
  • Electrostatic Self-assembly of Fluorescent Perylene Bisimide Coordination Polymers. Dobrawa, R.; Kurth, D. G.; Würthner, Frank. In Polymer Reprints, pp. 378–379. 2004.
  • Supramolecular p−n-Heterojunctions by Co-Self-Organization of Oligo(p-phenylene Vinylene) and Perylene Bisimide Dyes. Würthner, Frank; Chen, Zhijian; Hoeben, Freek J. M.; Osswald, Peter; You, Chang-Cheng; Jonkheijm, Pascal; Herrikhuyzen, Jeroen v.; Schenning, Albertus P. H. J.; van der Schoot, Paul P. A. M.; Meijer, E. W.; Beckers, Edwin H. A.; Meskers, Stefan C. J.; Janssen, René A. J. In J. Am. Chem. Soc., 126(34), pp. 10611–10618. 2004.
    PMID: 15327319
  • Porphyrin−Perylene Bisimide Dyads and Triads:  Synthesis and Optical and Coordination Properties. You, Chang-Cheng; Würthner, Frank. In Organic Letters, 6(14), pp. 2401–2404. 2004.
    PMID: 15228289
2003[ to top ]
  • Merocyanine Dyes Containing Imide Functional Groups:  Synthesis and Studies on Hydrogen Bonding to Melamine Receptors. Würthner, Frank; Yao, Sheng. In The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 68(23), pp. 8943–8949. 2003.
    PMID: 14604366
  • Bias-Dependent Visualization of Electron Donor (D) and Electron Acceptor (A) Moieties in a Chiral DAD Triad Molecule. Miura, Atsushi; Chen, Zhijian; Uji i, Hiroshi; De Feyter, Steven; Zdanowska, Magdalena; Jonkheijm, Pascal; Schenning, Albertus P. H. J.; Meijer, E. W.; Würthner, Frank; De Schryver, Frans C. In J. Am. Chem. Soc., 125(49), pp. 14968–14969. 2003.
    PMID: 14653714
  • Self-Assembly of Ferrocene-Functionalized Perylene Bisimide Bridging Ligands with Pt(II) Corner to Electrochemically Active Molecular Squares. You, Chang-Cheng; Würthner, Frank. In J. Am. Chem. Soc., 125(32), pp. 9716–9725. 2003.
    PMID: 12904037
  • Fabrication and fluorescence properties of perylene bisimide dye aggregates bound to gold surfaces and nanopatterns. Haas, Ulrike; Thalacker, Christoph; Adams, Jorg; Fuhrmann, Jurgen; Riethmuller, Silke; Beginn, Uwe; Ziener, Ulrich; Moller, Martin; Dobrawa, Rainer; Würthner, Frank. In J. Mater. Chem., 13(4), pp. 767–772. 2003.
  • Highly Ordered Merocyanine Dye Assemblies by Supramolecular Polymerization and Hierarchical Self-Organization. Würthner, Frank; Yao, Sheng; Beginn, Uwe. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 42(28), pp. 3247–3250. 2003.
  • Large Electric-Field Effects on the Dipolar Aggregation of Merocyanine Dyes. Wortmann, Rüdiger; Rösch, Ulrich; Redi-Abshiro, Mesfin; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 42(18), pp. 2080–2083. 2003.
  • Energy transfer in multichromophoric self-assembled molecular squares. Würthner, Frank; Sautter, Armin. In Org. Biomol. Chem., 1(2), pp. 240–243. 2003.
2002[ to top ]
  • Core-Substituted Naphthalene Bisimides: New Fluorophors with Tunable Emission Wavelength for FRET Studies. Würthner, Frank; Ahmed, Shahadat; Thalacker, Christoph; Debaerdemaeker, Tony. In Chemistry – A European Journal, 8(20), pp. 4742–4750. 2002.
  • Hydrogen bond-directed aggregation of diazadibenzoperylene dyes in low-polarity solvents and the solid state. Sautter, Armin; Thalacker, Christoph; Heise, Bernd; Würthner, Frank. In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 99(8), pp. 4993–4996. 2002.
  • Dimerization of Merocyanine Dyes. Structural and Energetic Characterization of Dipolar Dye Aggregates and Implications for Nonlinear Optical Materials. Würthner, Frank; Yao, Sheng; Debaerdemaeker, Tony; Wortmann, Rüdiger. In J. Am. Chem. Soc., 124(32), pp. 9431–9447. 2002.
    PMID: 12167038
  • Photorefractive Organic Glasses based on a New Chromophore with Minimized Aggregation Tendency. Wortmann, R.; Redi-Abshiro, M.; Rösch, U.; Yao, S.; Würthner, F. In Proc. SPIE, 4802, pp. 1–7. 2002.
  • Photoinduced Electron Transfer in Hydrogen-Bonded Oligo(p-phenylene vinylene)−Perylene Bisimide Chiral Assemblies. Schenning, Albertus P. H. J.; v. Herrikhuyzen, Jeroen; Jonkheijm, Pascal; Chen, Zhijian; Würthner, Frank; Meijer, E. W. In J. Am. Chem. Soc., 124(35), pp. 10252–10253. 2002.
    PMID: 12197707
  • Efficient Synthesis of a Multifunctional Dye Conjugate for Photorefractive Applications. Yaoa, Sheng; Hohleb, Christoph; Strohrieglb, Peter; Würthner, Frank. In Synthesis, pp. 1143–1146. 2002.
  • Chromophore Design for Photorefractive Organic Materials. Würthner, Frank; Wortmann, Rüdiger; Meerholz, Klaus. In ChemPhysChem, 3(1), pp. 17–31. 2002.
  • Calix[4]arene-Functionalized Naphthalene and Perylene Imide Dyes. Vysotsky, Myroslav O.; Böhmer, Volker; Würthner, Frank; You, Chang-Cheng; Rissanen, Kari. In Organic Letters, 4(17), pp. 2901–2904. 2002.
    PMID: 12182584
  • Photoluminescent supramolecular polymers: metal-ion directed polymerization of terpyridine-functionalized perylene bisimide dyes. Dobrawa, Rainer; Würthner, Frank. In Chem. Commun., (17), pp. 1878–1879. 2002.
  • Chiral Perylene Bisimide–Melamine Assemblies: Hydrogen Bond-Directed Growth of Helically Stacked Dyes with Chiroptical Properties. Thalacker, C.; Würthner, Frank. In Advanced Functional Materials, 12(3), pp. 209–218. 2002.
  • Synthesis of Diazadibenzoperylenes and Characterization of Their Structural, Optical, Redox, and Coordination Properties. Würthner, Frank; Sautter, Armin; Schilling, Joachim. In The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 67(9), pp. 3037–3044. 2002.
    PMID: 11975564
2001[ to top ]
  • Control of Liquid Crystallinity of Diazadibenzoperylene Dyes by Covalent and Hydrogen-Bonded Attachment of Mesogens. Sautter, Armin; Thalacker, Christoph; Würthner, Frank. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 40(23), pp. 4425–4428. 2001.
  • Kunststoff-Transistoren werden reif für Massenanwendungen in der Mikroelektronik. Würthner, Frank. In Angewandte Chemie, 113(6), pp. 1069–1071. 2001.
  • Farbstofforganisate: Biomimetik und funktionelle Materialien. Würthner, Frank. In Nachrichten aus der Chemie, (49), pp. 1284–1290. 2001.
  • Hydrogen bond directed formation of liquid-crystalline merocyanine dye assemblies. Würthner, Frank; Yao, Sheng; Heise, Bernd; Tschierske, Carsten. In Chem. Commun., (21), pp. 2260–2261. 2001.
  • Fluorescent J-type Aggregates and Thermotropic Columnar Mesophases of Perylene Bisimide Dyes. Würthner, Frank; Thalacker, Christoph; Diele, Siegmar; Tschierske, Carsten. In Chemistry – A European Journal, 7(10), pp. 2245–2253. 2001.
  • ATOP Dyes. Optimization of a Multifunctional Merocyanine Chromophore for High Refractive Index Modulation in Photorefractive Materials. Würthner, Frank; Yao, Sheng; Schilling, Joachim; Wortmann, Rüdiger; Redi-Abshiro, Mesfin; Mecher, Erwin; Gallego-Gomez, Francisco; Meerholz, Klaus. In J. Am. Chem. Soc., 123(12), pp. 2810–2824. 2001.
    PMID: 11456967
  • Fluorescent and Electroactive Cyclic Assemblies from Perylene Tetracarboxylic Acid Bisimide Ligands and Metal Phosphane Triflates. Würthner, Frank; Sautter, Armin; Schmid, Dietmar; Weber, Peter J. A. In Chemistry – A European Journal, 7(4), pp. 894–902. 2001.
  • Chiral exciton coupling of merocyanine dyes within a well defined hydrogen-bonded assembly. Prins, Leonard J.; Thalacker, Christoph; Würthner, Frank; Timmerman, Peter; Reinhoudt, David N. In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 98(18), pp. 10042–10045. 2001.
  • A Triangle−Square Equilibrium of Metallosupramolecular Assemblies Based on Pd(II) and Pt(II) Corners and Diazadibenzoperylene Bridging Ligands. Sautter, Armin; Schmid, Dietmar G.; Jung, Günther; Würthner, Frank. In J. Am. Chem. Soc., 123(23), pp. 5424–5430. 2001.
    PMID: 11389622
2000[ to top ]
  • Highly Fluorescent and Electroactive Molecular Squares Containing Perylene Bisimide Ligands. Würthner, Frank; Sautter, A. In Chem. Commun, pp. 445–446. 2000.
  • Optimization of Molecular and Supramolecular Properties of Merocyanine Dyes for Photorefractive Organic Glasses. Würthner, Frank; Yao, S.; Wortmann, R. In Polym. Mater. Sci. Eng., (83), pp. 186–187. 2000.
  • Molecular Design of Thermally Stable Glass-Forming Merocyanine Dyes. Würthner, Frank; Yao, S.; Wortmann, R. In J. Information Recording, pp. 445–446. 2000.
  • Substituted Diazadibenzoperylenes: New Functional Building Blocks for Supramolecular Chemistry. Würthner, Frank; Sautter, A.; Thalacker, C. In Int. Ed. Engl., (39), pp. 1243–1245. 2000.
  • Towards Morphologically Stable Photorefractive Composites: A Comparative Study of ATOP/PVK-Based Materials. Mecher, E.; Gallego-Gomez, F.; Bräuchle, C.; Meerholz, K.; Wortmann, R.; Yao, S.; Sautter, A.; Würthner, F. In Proc. SPIE, 4104, pp. 118–129. 2000.
  • Hierarchical Self-Organization of Perylene Bisimide-Melamine Assemblies to Fluorescent Mesoscopic Superstructures. Würthner, Frank; Thalacker, C.; Sautter, A.; Schärtl, W.; Ibach, W.; Hollricher, O. In Chem. Eur. J., (6), pp. 3871–3886 (Titelbild). 2000.
  • Dipolar Dye Aggregates: a Problem for Nonlinear Optics, but a Chance for Supramolecular Chemistry. Würthner, Frank; Yao, S. In Int. Ed. Engl., (39), pp. 1978–1981. 2000.
1999[ to top ]
  • Hierarchical Organization of Functional Perylene Chromophores to Mesoscopic Superstructures by Hydrogen Bonding and p-p-Interactions. Würthner, Frank; Thalacker, C.; Sautter, A. In Adv. Mater., (11), pp. 754–758. 1999.
  • Electrooptical Chromophores for Nonlinear Optical and Photorefractive Applications. Beckmann, S.; Etzbach, K.-H.; Krämer, P.; Lukaszuk, K.; Matschiner, R.; Schmidt, A. J.; Schuhmacher, P.; Sens, R.; Seybold, G.; Wortmann, R.; Würthner, Frank. In Adv. Mater., (11), pp. 536–541. 1999.
  • Improved Alignment of Birefringent ATOP Chromophores for High-Performance Photorefractive Materials. Würthner, Frank; Sautter, A.; Legrand, C.; Mecher, E.; Meerholz, K.; Wortmann, R. In Polym. Mater. Sci. Eng., (80), pp. 252–253. 1999.
  • DMF in Acetic Anhydride: a Useful Reagent for Multiple-Component Syntheses of Merocyanine Dyes. Würthner, F. In Synthesis, pp. 2103–2113. 1999.
  • Design, Synthesis, and Evaluation of a Dye Library: Glass-Forming and Solid-State Luminescent Merocyanines for Functional Materials. Würthner, Frank; Sens, R.; Etzbach, K.-H.; Seybold, G. In Int. Ed. Engl., (38), pp. 1649–1652. 1999.
1998[ to top ]
  • Improved Index Modulation and Stability of Photorefractive Polymers using Merocyanine Dyes. Meerholz, K.; Bittner, R.; Mecher, E.; DeNardin, Y.; Bräuchle, C.; Wortmann, R.; Würthner, Frank. In Proc. SPIE, 3471, pp. 52–59. 1998.
  • Improved performance of photorefractive polymers based on merocyanine dyes in a polar matrix. Meerholz, K.; DeNardin, Y.; Bittner, R.; Wortmann, R.; Würthner, Frank. In Appl. Phys. Lett., (73), pp. 4–6. 1998.
  • Optimization of neutrocyanine chromophores based on five-membered heterocycles for photorefractive applications. Würthner, Frank; Thalacker, C.; Matschiner, R.; Lukaszuk, K.; Wortmann, R. In Chem. Commun, pp. 1739–1740. 1998.
  • Anthryloligothienylporphyrins: Energy Transfer and Light-Harvesting Systems. Vollmer, M. S.; Würthner, Frank; Effenberger, F.; Emele, P.; Meyer, D. U.; Stümpfig, T.; Port, H.; Wolf, H. C. In Chem. Eur. J., (4), pp. 260–269, Titelbild. 1998.
  • Highly birefringent neutrocyanine dyes for photorefractive polymers. Wortmann, R.; Würthner, Frank; Sautter, A.; Lukaszuk, K.; Matschiner, R.; Meerholz, K. In Proc. SPIE, 3471, pp. 41–49. 1998.
1997[ to top ]
  • Merocyanine Dyes in the Cyanine Limit: a New Class of Chromophores for Photorefractive Materials. Würthner, Frank; Wortmann, R.; Matschiner, R.; Lukaszuk, K.; Meerholz, K.; DeNardin, Y.; Bittner, R.; Bräuchle, C.; Sens, R. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., (36), pp. 2865–2768. 1997.
1995[ to top ]
  • Synthesis and solvatochromic properties of donor-acceptor-substituted oligothiophenes. Effenberger, F.; Würthner, Frank; Steybe, F. In J. Org. Chem., (60), pp. 2082–2091. 1995.
  • Synthesis and energy transfer properties of terminally substituted oligothiophenes. Würthner, Frank; Vollmer, M. S.; Effenberger, F.; Emele, P.; Meyer, D. U.; Port, H.; Wolf, H. C. In J. Am. Chem. Soc., (117), pp. 8090–8099. 1995.
  • Light‐Switchable Catalysis in Synthetic Receptors. Würthner, Frank; Rebek, J. Jr. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 34(4), pp. 446–448. 1995.
  • Photoresponsive Synthetic Receptors: Binding Properties and Photocontrol of Catalytic Activity. Würthner, Frank; Rebek, J. Jr. In J. Chem. Soc. Perkin Trans. 2, pp. 1727–1734. 1995.
1994[ to top ]
  • Dual fluorescence of 9-anthryl-substituted oligothiophenes in nonpolar environment. Emele, P.; Meyer, D. U.; Holl, N.; Port, H.; Wolf, H. C.; Würthner, Frank; Bäuerle, P.; Effenberger, F. In Chem. Phys., (181), pp. 417–424. 1994.
1993[ to top ]
  • Second-order polarizability of donor-acceptor-substituted oligothiophenes: Substituent variation and conjugation length dependence. Würthner, Frank; Effenberger, F.; Wortmann, R.; Krämer, P. In Chem. Phys., (173), pp. 305–314. 1993.
  • Selective synthesis of a -substituted oligothiophenes. Bäuerle, P.; Würthner, Frank; Götz, G.; Effenberger, F. In Synthesis, pp. 1099–1103. 1993.
  • 5‐Dimethylamino‐5′‐nitro‐2, 2′‐bithiophene—a New Dye with Pronounced Positive Solvatochromism. Würthner, Frank; Effenberger, F. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 32(5), pp. 719–721. 1993.
  • Synthesis and structural characterization of alkyloligothiophenes - The first isomerically pure dialkylsexithiophene. Bäuerle, P.; Pfau, F.; Schlupp, H.; Würthner, Frank; Gaudl, K. U.; Balpardo Caro, M.; Fischer, P. In J. Chem. Soc. Perkin Trans. 2, pp. 489–494. 1993.
1990[ to top ]
  • Facile Synthesis of 3‐(ω‐Haloalkyl)thiophenes as Key Building Blocks for Functionalized Thiophenes and Polythiophenes. Bäuerle, P.; Würthner, Frank; Heid, S. In Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 29(4), pp. 419–420. 1990.
  • Synthesis and properties of carboxy-functionalized poly-(3-alkylthienylenes). Bäuerle, P.; Gaudl, K. U.; Würthner, Frank; Sariciftci, N. S.; Neugebauer, H.; Mehring, M.; Zhong, C.; Doblhofer, K. In Adv. Mater., 2, pp. 491–494. 1990.