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Title: | Stable tetrabenzo-Chichibabin's hydrocarbons: Tunable ground state and unusual transition between their closed-shell and open-shell resonance forms | Authors: | Zeng, Z. Sung, Y.M. Bao, N. Tan, D. Lee, R. Zafra, J.L. Lee, B.S. Ishida, M. Ding, J. López Navarrete, J.T. Li, Y. Zeng, W. Kim, D. Huang, K.-W. Webster, R.D. Casado, J. Wu, J. |
Issue Date: | 5-Sep-2012 | Citation: | Zeng, Z., Sung, Y.M., Bao, N., Tan, D., Lee, R., Zafra, J.L., Lee, B.S., Ishida, M., Ding, J., López Navarrete, J.T., Li, Y., Zeng, W., Kim, D., Huang, K.-W., Webster, R.D., Casado, J., Wu, J. (2012-09-05). Stable tetrabenzo-Chichibabin's hydrocarbons: Tunable ground state and unusual transition between their closed-shell and open-shell resonance forms. Journal of the American Chemical Society 134 (35) : 14513-14525. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja3050579 | Abstract: | Stable open-shell polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are of fundamental interest due to their unique electronic, optical, and magnetic properties and promising applications in materials sciences. Chichibabin's hydrocarbon as a classical open-shell PAH has been investigated for a long time. However, most of the studies are complicated by their inherent high reactivity. In this work, two new stable benzannulated Chichibabin's hydrocarbons 1-CS and 2-OS were prepared, and their electronic structure and geometry in the ground state were studied by various experiments (steady-state and transient absorption spectra, NMR, electron spin resonance (ESR), superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID), FT Raman, X-ray crystallographic etc.) and density function theory (DFT) calculations. 1-CS and 2-OS exhibited tunable ground states, with a closed-shell quinoidal structure for 1-CS and an open-shell biradical form for 2-OS. Their corresponding excited-state forms 1-OS and 2-CS were also chemically approached and showed different decay processes. The biradical 1-OS displayed an unusually slow decay to the ground state (1-CS) due to a large energy barrier (95 ± 2.5 kJ/mol) arising from severe steric hindrance during the transition from an orthogonal biradical form to a butterfly-like quinoidal form. The quick transition from the quinoidal 2-CS (excited state) to the orthogonal biradicaloid 2-OS (ground state) happened during the attempted synthesis of 2-CS. Compounds 1-CS and 2-OS can be oxidized into stable dications by FeCl 3 and/or concentrated H 2SO 4. The open-shell 2-OS also exhibited a large two-photon absorption (TPA) cross section (760 GM at 1200 nm). © 2012 American Chemical Society. | Source Title: | Journal of the American Chemical Society | URI: | http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/86725 | ISSN: | 00027863 | DOI: | 10.1021/ja3050579 |
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