Experimental and theoretical study on spontaneous intermolecular charge transfer features and antiaromaticities of unusual bisazo compounds with antiaromatic cores

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/j.molstruc.2019.04.044

Antiaromatic compounds have been applied in optoelectronic devices. In this paper, acenaphthoquinone bisphenylhydrazone (1a) and acenaphthoquinone bis(4-bromophenylhydrazone) (2a), were synthesized by a Schiff base reaction of acenaphthoquinone with pheny