Recent advances in stable main group element radicals: preparation and characterization

Z Feng, S Tang, Y Su, X Wang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Radical species are significant in modern chemistry. Their unique chemical bonding and
novel physicochemical properties play significant roles not only in fundamental chemistry …

Iodanyl radical catalysis

A Maity, BL Frey, DC Powers - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2023 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Hypervalent iodine reagents find application as selective chemical oxidants in a
diverse array of oxidative transformations. The utility of these reagents is often ascribed to …

Isolable bis (triarylamine) dications: analogues of Thiele's, Chichibabin's, and Muller's hydrocarbons

G Tan, X Wang - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2017 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Since the pioneering work by Thiele and Chichibabin, who synthesized the first
diradicals bridged by phenylene and biphenylene groups in 1904 and 1907, respectively …

Iodine–Iodine Cooperation Enables Metal-Free C–N Bond-Forming Electrocatalysis via Isolable Iodanyl Radicals

BL Frey, MT Figgins, GP Van Trieste III… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Small molecule redox mediators convey interfacial electron transfer events into bulk solution
and can enable diverse substrate activation mechanisms in synthetic electrocatalysis. Here …

Adaptive responses of sterically confined intramolecular chalcogen bonds

K Selvakumar, HB Singh - Chemical Science, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
The responsive behavior of an entity towards its immediate surrounding is referred to as an
adaptive response. The adaptive responses of a noncovalent interaction at the molecular …

Isolable Radical Ions of Main‐Group Elements: Structures, Bonding and Properties

G Tan, X Wang - Chinese Journal of Chemistry, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Synthesis of stable main‐group element‐based radicals represents one of the most
interesting topics in contemporary organometallic chemistry, because of their vital roles in …

A phenyl S–Te bond with unique redox activity in dilute electrolyte of a lithium battery

Q Chen, Y Si, W Guo, Y Fu - Chemical Communications, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Phenyl tellurosulfide (PhS-TePh) was used to study the redox activity of the S–Te bond in
lithium batteries. PhS-TePh formed a dynamic covalent network during lithiation, which …

An Isolable Radical Anion Featuring a 2‐Center‐3‐Electron π‐Bond without a Clearly Defined σ‐Bond

Y Mei, X Chen, R Wei, XY Chang, L Tao… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Featuring an extra electron in the π* antibonding orbital, species with a 2‐center‐3‐electron
(2c3e) π bond without an underlying σ bond are scarcely known. Herein, we report the …

Nitrogen analogues of Thiele's hydrocarbon

Y Su, X Wang, Y Li, Y Song, Y Sui… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
A series of bis [N, N‐di‐(4‐methoxylphenyl) amino] arene dications 12+–32+ have been
synthesized and characterized. Their electronic structures were investigated by various …

Odd-electron-bonded sulfur radical cations: x-ray structural evidence of a sulfur–sulfur three-electron σ-bond

S Zhang, X Wang, Y Sui, X Wang - Journal of the American …, 2014 - ACS Publications
The one-electron oxidations of 1, 8-chalcogen naphthalenes Nap (SPh) 2 (1) and Nap
(SPh)(SePh)(2) lead to the formation of persistent radical cations 1•+ and 2•+ in solution …