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Unprecedented zwitterion in quinonoid chemistry
Olivier Siri1, Pierre Braunstein
1Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination, UMR CNRS 7513, Université Louis Pasteur, 4 rue Blaise Pascal F-67070, Strasbourg, France.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|July 18, 2002
Abstract:
The first 12 pi-electron zwitterionic structure in quinonoid chemistry is described with the N,N,O,O-molecule 6 in which the positive charge is pi-delocalized between the nitrogen atoms and the negative charge between the oxygen atoms; depending on the crystallization solvent, a 1D-tape-like H-bonded network can be generated in the solid-state.