Learning how to fine‐tune diradical properties by structure refinement

JJ Dressler, MM Haley - Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The literature has seen a large increase in the number of new carbon‐based organic
diradicals/diradicaloids in recent years. While a plethora of new and exciting structures have …

Recent Progress in High Linearly Fused Polycyclic Conjugated Hydrocarbons (PCHs, n > 6) with Well‐Defined Structures

W Chen, F Yu, Q Xu, G Zhou, Q Zhang - Advanced Science, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Although polycyclic conjugated hydrocarbons (PCHs) and their analogues have gained
great progress in the fields of organic photoelectronic materials, the in‐depth study on …

Thiele's Fluorocarbons: Stable Diradicaloids with Efficient Visible-to-Near-Infrared Fluorescence from a Zwitterionic Excited State

CH Liu, Z He, C Ruchlin, Y Che, K Somers… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Thiele's hydrocarbon was the first synthesized diradicaloid in the search for stable open-
shell structures, but it remains sensitive to oxygen and light. We here report the synthesis of …

[HTML][HTML] Engineering the HOMO–LUMO gap of indeno [1, 2-b] fluorene

R Casares, Á Martínez-Pinel… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
A direct, efficient and versatile strategy for the modulation of optoelectronic and magnetic
properties of indeno [1, 2-b] fluorene has been developed. 4-Substituted-2, 6 …

[HTML][HTML] Diindenoanthracene diradicaloids enable rational, incremental tuning of their singlet-triplet energy gaps

JJ Dressler, AC Valdivia, R Kishi, GE Rudebusch… - Chem, 2020 - cell.com
A fundamental understanding of the inherent electronic and magnetic properties of open-
shell diradicaloids is essential so that these properties can be modified to create molecules …

Dibenzoheterole-Fused s-Indacenes

HK Saha, D Mallick, S Das - The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2023 - ACS Publications
Heterole (pyrrole, thiophene, furan, thiophene-S, S-dioxide)-fused s-indacenes are known
for their enhanced paratropic ring-current strength. However, the outcome of the …

Revisiting indeno [1, 2-b] fluorene by steric promoted synthesis while isolating the second stable 4nπ indeno [2, 1-a] fluorene

H Sharma, N Bhardwaj, S Das - Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Described herein are the steric promoted synthesis and characterization of symmetric,
unsymmetric, and benzo-extended indeno [1, 2-b] fluorenes 1–5, including the isolation of …

Stepwise reduction of azapentabenzocorannulene

Z Zhou, Z Wei, Y Tokimaru, S Ito, K Nozaki… - Angewandte …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Mono‐and dianions of 2‐tert‐butyl‐3a2‐azapentabenzo [bc, ef, hi, kl, no] corannulene (1 a)
were synthesized by chemical reduction with sodium and cesium metals, and crystallized as …

Unveiling two antiaromatic s-indacenodicarbazole isomers with tunable paratropicity

HK Saha, D Mallick, S Das - Chemical Communications, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Linear and curved antiaromatic s-indacenodicarbazole isomers were synthesized and
characterized to show the tunable paratropicity of s-indacene, as analyzed by NICS (1) zz …

Structure–Property Relationships in Unsymmetric Bis (antiaromatics): Who Wins the Battle between Pentalene and Benzocyclobutadiene?

PJ Mayer, O El Bakouri, T Holczbauer… - The Journal of …, 2020 - ACS Publications
According to the currently accepted structure–property relationships, aceno-pentalenes with
an angular shape (fused to the 1, 2-bond of the acene) exhibit higher antiaromaticity than …