Playing with organic radicals as building blocks for functional molecular materials

I Ratera, J Veciana - Chemical Society Reviews, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
The literature has shown numerous contributions on the synthesis and physicochemical
properties of persistent organic radicals but there are a lesser number of reports about their …

Molecular engineering of noncovalent dimerization

G Wu, F Li, B Tang, X Zhang - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Dimers are probably the simplest model to facilitate the understanding of fundamental
physical and chemical processes that take place in much-expanded systems like …

What's new in stable radical chemistry?

RG Hicks - Organic & biomolecular chemistry, 2007 - pubs.rsc.org
Many kinds of radicals are stable enough to isolate, handle, and store without any special
precautions. The diversity in molecular architectures of these stable radicals is sufficiently …

Stretching bonds in main group element compounds—Borderlines between biradicals and closed-shell species

F Breher - Coordination chemistry reviews, 2007 - Elsevier
Biradicals are molecules consisting of two unpaired electrons in two nearly degenerate non-
bonding molecular orbitals (NBMOs). They play a central role in bond breaking and …

Pancake bonds: π-Stacked dimers of organic and light-atom radicals

KE Preuss - Polyhedron, 2014 - Elsevier
The nature of the chemical bond is fundamental to the modern concept of chemistry. Species
that exhibit unusual interactions provide a valuable challenge to current theoretical models …

Direct observation of modulated radical spin states in metal–organic frameworks by controlled flexibility

X Chen, H Xie, ER Lorenzo, CJ Zeman IV… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Owing to their switchable spin states and dynamic electronic character, organic-based
radical species have been invoked in phenomena unique to a variety of fields. When …

Redox control of rotary motions in ferrocene-based elemental ball bearings

A Iordache, M Oltean, A Milet, F Thomas… - Journal of the …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Rotational motions of ferrocene-based carousels have been achieved by electron transfer
centered on π-dimerizable 4, 4′-bipyridinium substituents introduced on both …

Organic radicals, a promising route towards original molecule-based magnetic materials

C Train, L Norel, M Baumgarten - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2009 - Elsevier
We describe our activities on radical-based compounds developed within the 6-year priority
program of the DFG Schwerpunktprogramm “Molekularer Magnetismus”. During this period …

Magnetic Transition in Organic Radicals: The Crystal Engineering Aspects

A Paul, A Gupta, S Konar - Crystal Growth & Design, 2021 - ACS Publications
Spin–Spin interactions between unpaired electrons in organic radicals are of utter
importance from the viewpoint of molecular magnetism and the development of smart …

Advances in verdazyl chemistry

GN Lipunova, TG Fedorchenko, AN Tsmokalyuk… - Russian Chemical …, 2020 - Springer
Reviews Page 1 Russian Chemical Bulletin, International Edition, Vol. 69, No. 7, pp. 1203—1222,
July, 2020 1203 Published in Russian in Izvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No …