Phenalenyl radical: Smallest polycyclic odd alternant hydrocarbon present in the graphene sheet

J Ahmed, SK Mandal - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Phenalenyl, a zigzag-edged odd alternant hydrocarbon unit can be found in the graphene
nanosheet. Hückel molecular orbital calculations indicate the presence of a nonbonding …

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 …

Radical Single-Molecule Junctions

L Li, CR Prindle, W Shi, C Nuckolls… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Radicals are unique molecular systems for applications in electronic devices due to their
open-shell electronic structures. Radicals can function as good electrical conductors and …

Polycyclic Hydrocarbons from [4n]Annulenes: Correlation versus Hybridization Forces in the Formation of Diradicaloids

S Moles Quintero, MM Haley… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The conceptual connections between [4n] Hückel antiaromaticity, disjoint orbitals,
correlation energy, pro‐aromaticity and diradical character for a variety of extended π …

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 …

Electrically conductive covalent organic frameworks: bridging the fields of organic metals and 2D materials

M Souto, DF Perepichka - Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The discovery of organic metals in the 1970s opened the door to the design of electrical
devices based on traditionally inert (insulating) organic materials. More recently …

Recent progress in open-shell organic conjugated materials and their aggregated states

S Dong, Z Li - Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
In the last few decades, open-shell organic materials have attracted great attention from
scientists due to their new chemical and physical properties, as well as their possible …

Hydrogen bond-promoted metallic state in a purely organic single-component conductor under pressure

T Isono, H Kamo, A Ueda, K Takahashi… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Purely organic materials are generally insulating. Some charge-carrier generation, however,
can provide them with electrical conductivity. In multi-component organic systems, carrier …

Cethrene: a helically chiral biradicaloid isomer of heptazethrene

P Ravat, T Šolomek, M Rickhaus… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We report the synthesis and properties of “cethrene”, the only helically chiral isomer of
heptazethrene with a biradicaloid singlet ground state. Cethrene gives a well‐resolved EPR …

Recent advances in organic radicals and their magnetism

S Kumar, Y Kumar, SK Keshri, P Mukhopadhyay - Magnetochemistry, 2016 - mdpi.com
The review presents an overview of the organic radicals that have been designed and
synthesized recently, and their magnetic properties are discussed. The π-conjugated …