Pentacene is a polyaromatic hydrocarbon consisting of five linearly condensed benzene rings. Pentacene has attracted much attention as an electronic devices material in recent years, especially, in the field of p-type semiconductor research. Correspondingly, C60 is known as an n-type semiconductor, and a combination of it and pentacene has been actively studied as a transistor consisting only of organic and molecular substances. For use in such applications, pentacene must be of extremely high purity. TCI offers pentacene purified to a suitable standard by recrystallization and sublimation.

P0030 Pentacene (purified by sublimation)


In addition, pentacene is not only used as a semiconductor but it is also used as a starting material for higher-performance semiconductors. For example, synthetic methods for soluble pentacene from pentacene are reported as follows.