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Wiley, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 12(56), p. 3280-3284

DOI: 10.1002/anie.201611689

Wiley, Angewandte Chemie, 12(129), p. 3328-3332

DOI: 10.1002/ange.201611689

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A Stable Saddle-Shaped Polycyclic Hydrocarbon with an Open-Shell Singlet Ground State

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Abstract

AbstractDiindeno‐fused bischrysene, a new diindeno‐based polycyclic hydrocarbon (PH), was synthesized and characterized. It was elucidated in detailed experimental and theoretical studies that this cyclopenta‐fused PH possesses an open‐shell singlet biradical structure in the ground state and exhibits high stability under ambient conditions (t1/2=39 days). The crystal structure unambiguously shows a novel saddle‐shaped π‐conjugated carbon skeleton due to the steric hindrance of the central cove‐edged bischrysene unit. UV/Vis spectral measurements revealed that the title molecule has a very narrow optical energy gap of 0.92 eV, which is consistent with the electrochemical analysis and further supported by density functional theory (DFT) calculations.