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An Open‐Shell Coronoid with Hybrid Chichibabin–Schlenk Conjugation.

Autorzy

Bibek Prajapati

Duy-Khoi Dang

Piotr J. Chmielewski

Marcin A. Majewski

Tadeusz Lis

Carlos J. Gómez-García

Paul M. Zimmerman

Marcin Stępień

Rok wydania

2021

Czasopismo

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Numer woluminu

60

Strony

22496-22504

DOI

10.1002/anie.202109273

Kolekcja

Naukowa

Język

Angielski

Typ publikacji

Artykuł

Streszczenie

A hexaradicaloid molecule with alternating Kekulé and non-Kekulé connectivities between adjacent spin centers was obtained by fusing two classic conjugation motifs, found respectively in the Chichibabin and Schlenk hydrocarbons, into a coronoid structure. 1 H NMR, ESR and SQUID experiments, combined with computational analyses reveal that the system has a singlet ground state, characterized by a significant hexaradicaloid character ( γ 0 = 0.826, γ 1 = γ 2 = 0.773). It possesses multiple thermally accessible high-spin states (up to the septet), with uniform energy gaps of ca 1.0 kcal/mol between consecutive multiplicities. In line with its open-shell character, the coronoid has a small electronic bandgap of ca. 0.8 eV and undergoes two consecutive one-electron oxidations at low potentials, yielding cationic forms with extended near-infrared absorption. The hexaradicaloid, which combines open-shell and macrocyclic contributions to its π conjugation, provides an example of a design strategy for multistate spin switches and redox-amphoteric NIR dyes.

Adres publiczny

http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.202109273

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