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  • Organic Chemistry
  • Materials Science

Background:

  • Stable organic diradicaloids with tunable diradical characters are crucial for emerging technologies.
  • Understanding the relationship between molecular structure and diradical character is essential for designing new materials.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To design and investigate a series of quinoidal isoindigo (IID) compounds with varying terminal end groups.
  • To elucidate the driving forces for evoking and enhancing diradical character in quinoidal IID systems.
  • To establish structure-property relationships for tuning diradical character.

Main Methods:

  • Computational design of quinoidal isoindigo (IID) compounds.
  • Analysis of structure-diradical character relationships.
  • Correlation of diradical character (y0) with bond length alternation (BLA), HOMA, and NICS(1)zz.

Main Results:

  • The arylene units of the IID core and bridged aromatic units significantly influence the ground-state diradical character.
  • Diradical character (y0) shows strong correlations with BLA, total HOMA, and total NICS(1)zz.
  • Bridged aromatic units and terminal end groups effectively tune diradical character in symmetric systems.
  • Zwitterionic character in asymmetric systems modulates the diradical character.

Conclusions:

  • This study provides a deeper understanding of how to evoke and enhance diradical character in quinoidal IID-based diradicaloids.
  • The findings offer valuable guidelines for the rational design of new molecules with tailored electronic properties.