An Electrochemical Investigation into the Redox Properties of Push‐Pull Dibenzodioxins and Comparative Analysis with Analogous Heteroacenes

Abstract

AbstractA series of dibenzodioxins containing electron push‐pull groups were synthesized using simple methods and their spectroscopic and redox behavior was studied. Electrochemical experiments were performed to measure the redox potentials of the substituted dibenzodioxins. The role of individual molecular subunits in tweaking the redox potential values was delineated by comparing them with the electrochemical properties of analogous heteroacenes. In many cases, our redox potentials were found to be comparably low with that of many well‐known heteroacenes.