Core carbo-mer of an Extended Tetrathiafulvalene: Redox-Controlled Reversible Conversion to a carbo-Benzenic Dication.
Chemistry
; 26(47): 10707-10711, 2020 Aug 21.
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ABSTRACT
carbo-Benzene is an aromatic molecule devised by inserting C2 units within each C-C bond of the benzene molecule. By integrating the corresponding carbo-quinoid core as bridging unit in a π-extended tetrathiafulvalene (exTTF), it is shown that a carbo-benzene ring can be reversibly formed by electrochemical reduction or oxidation. The so-called carbo-exTTF molecule was thus experimentally prepared and studied by UV-visible absorption spectroscopy and cyclic voltammetry, as well as by X-ray crystallography and by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) on a surface of highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG). The molecule and its oxidized and reduced forms were subjected to a computational study at the density functional theory (DFT) level, supporting carbo-aromaticity as a driving force for the formation of the dication, radical cation, and radical anion. By allowing co-planarity of the dithiolylidene rings and carbo-quinoidal core, carbo-exTTFs present a promising new class of redox-active systems.
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Chemistry
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QUIMICA
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2020
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Francia