Benzo-Extended Cyclohepta[def]fluorene Derivatives with Very Low-Lying Triplet States

Wu F, Ma J, Lombardi F, Fu Y, Liu F, Huang Z, Liu R, Komber H, Alexandropoulos DI, Dmitrieva E, Lohr TG, Israel N, Popov AA, Liu J, Bogani L, Feng X (2022)

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2022

Journal

Angewandte Chemie International Edition Wiley

Book Volume: 61

Article Number: e202202170

Journal Issue: 23

DOI: 10.1002/anie.202202170

Abstract

Open-shell non-alternant polycyclic hydrocarbons (PHs) are attracting increasing attention due to their promising applications in organic spintronics and quantum computing. Herein we report the synthesis of three cyclohepta[def]fluorene-based diradicaloids (1–3), by fusion of benzo rings on its periphery for the thermodynamic stabilization, as evidenced by multiple characterization techniques. Remarkably, all of them display a very narrow optical energy gap (Egopt=0.52–0.69 eV) and persistent stability under ambient conditions (t1/2=11.7–33.3 h). More importantly, this new type of diradicaloids possess a low-lying triplet state with an extremely small singlet–triplet energy gap, as low as 0.002 kcal mol−1, with a clear dependence on the molecular size. This family of compounds thus offers a new route to create non-alternant open-shell PHs with high-spin ground states, and opens up novel possibilities and insights into understanding the structure–property relationships.

Involved external institutions

Technische Universität Dresden DE Germany (DE) University of Oxford GB United Kingdom (GB) Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e. V. DE Germany (DE) Leibniz-Institut für Festkörper- und Werkstoffforschung Dresden e.V. (IFW) / Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden DE Germany (DE) University of Hong Kong (HKU) / 香港大學 HK Hong Kong (HK)

How to cite

APA:

Wu, F., Ma, J., Lombardi, F., Fu, Y., Liu, F., Huang, Z.,... Feng, X. (2022). Benzo-Extended Cyclohepta[def]fluorene Derivatives with Very Low-Lying Triplet States. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 61(23). https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202202170

MLA:

Wu, Fupeng, et al. "Benzo-Extended Cyclohepta[def]fluorene Derivatives with Very Low-Lying Triplet States." Angewandte Chemie International Edition 61.23 (2022).

BibTeX: Download