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American Chemical Society, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 26(137), p. 8572-8583, 2015

DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b04156

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Push-Pull Type Oligo(N-annulated Perylene)quinodimethanes: Chain Length and Solvent Dependent Ground States and Physical Properties

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Abstract

Research on stable open-shell singlet diradicaloids recently became a hot topic because of their unique optical, electronic and magnetic properties and promising applications in materials science. So far, most reported singlet diradicaloid molecules have a symmetric structure, while asymmetric diradicaloids with an additional contribution of a dipolar zwitterionic form to the ground state were rarely studied. In this article, a series of new push-pull type oligo(N-annulated perylene)quinodimethanes were synthesized. Their chain length and solvent dependent ground states and physical properties were systematically investigated by various experimental methods such as steady-state and transient absorption, two-photon absorption, X-ray crystallographic analysis, electron spin resonance, superconducting quantum interference device, Raman spectroscopy and electrochemistry. It was found that with extension of the chain length, the diradical character increases while the contribution of the zwitterionic form to the ground state becomes smaller and smaller. Due to the intramolecular charge transfer character, the physical properties of this push-pull system showed solvent dependence. In addition, density functional theory calculations on the diradical character, Hirshfeld charges and absorption spectra were conducted to understand the chain length and solvent dependence of both symmetric and asymmetric systems. Our studies provided a comprehensive understanding on the fundamental structure- and environment-property relationships in the new asymmetric diradicaloid systems.