dioctylfluorene

English

Etymology

From dioctyl +‎ fluorene.

Noun

dioctylfluorene (plural dioctylfluorenes)

1. (organic chemistry) A dioctyl derivative of fluorene
   • 2009 February 27, Leif Lafferentz et al., “Conductance of a Single Conjugated Polymer as a Continuous Function of Its Length”, in Science‎^[1], volume 323, number 5918, →DOI, pages 1193–1197:

     However, they also display smaller HOMO-LUMO gaps ( 26 ) than the polyfluorene molecular wire investigated here [a gap between 3 and 4 eV has been determined for similar poly(dioctylfluorene) molecules ( 27 )].