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Extended Bis(anthraoxa)quinodimethanes with Nine and Ten Consecutively Fused Six-Membered Rings: Neutral
Shaoqiang Dong1, Tullimilli Y Gopalakrishna1, Yi Han1
1Department of Chemistry , National University of Singapore , 3 Science Drive 3 , Singapore 117543 , Republic of Singapore.
Abstract:
We report the challenging synthesis of two very long bis(anthraoxa)quinodimethanes with nine (ABA) and ten (ANA) consecutively fused six-membered rings. The former is stable with negligible diradical character, while the latter with a moderate diradical character ( y0 = 25.0%) is reactive and an unexpected trifluoroacetic substituted product (ANA-TFA) was isolated. X-ray crystallographic analysis revealed a planar backbone with a typical quinoidal character for both. Their dications can be regarded as the isoelectronic structures of the respective nonacene and decacene. The dication ABA2+ and dianion ABA2- are open-shell singlet diradicaloids, while the longer dication ANA-TFA2+ and dianion ANA2- have closed-shell ground state, which can be explained by the different intramolecular Coulomb interactions. Both dianions have a bent backbone and can be considered as an isoelectronic structure of the tetraanion of nonacene and decacene, respectively.
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