Self‐Assembly and Electronics of Dipolar Linear Acenes

Linear acenes terminated with quinones demonstrate that electrostatic complementarity is a viable self-assembly motif for organic semiconductors. An organic field-effect transistor with co-facial, head-to-tail stacks with π-surfaces 0.1 Å closer together than the aromatic planes of graphite is fabricated. The field-effect mobilities and ON/OFF current ratios are high enough to be useful in flexible electronic applications.