Atomically Precise Synthesis and Characterization of Heptauthrene with Triplet Ground State.
Nano Lett
; 20(9): 6859-6864, 2020 Sep 09.
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ABSTRACT
By virtue of multitunable spin structures upon designing the π-electron topologies, phenalenyl-based nanographenes are of substantial interest in fundamental science and for potential applications in spintronics. Heptauthrene, as one of the well-known phenalenyl diradicals, is composed of one benzene-fused bisphenalenyls in mirror symmetry and expected to have a triplet ground state. However, the synthesis of unsubstituted heptauthrene remains very challenging due to the high reactivity of triplet diradicals. Here, we report a combined in-solution and on-surface synthesis of unsubstituted heptauthrene, whose chemical structure is characterized through bond-resolved atomic force microscopy. Combined with mean-field Hubbard model calculations, its triplet ground state is unambiguously confirmed by the underscreened Kondo resonance in response to the magnetic field, as well as the engineered spin-state switching upon extra hydrogen atom addition and dissociation on the radical site. Our results provide access to phenalenyl-based nanographenes with high-spin ground state, potentially useful in constructing high-spin networks.
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