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Stable Expanded Porphycene-Based Diradicaloid and Tetraradicaloid
Rana, Anup,Hong, Yongseok,Gopalakrishna, Tullimilli Y.,Phan, Hoa,Herng, Tun Seng,Yadav, Priya,Ding, Jun,Kim, Dongho,Wu, Jishan
, p. 12534 - 12537 (2018)
The synthesis of a bithiophene-bridged 34π conjugated aromatic expanded porphycene 1 and a cyclopentabithiophene bridged 32π conjugated anti-aromatic expanded porphycene 2 by a McMurry coupling strategy is presented. Magnetic measurements and theoretical calculations reveal that both 1 and 2 exhibit an open-shell singlet ground state with significant radical character (y0=0.63 for 1; y0=0.68, y1=0.18 for 2; y0: diradical character, y1: tetraradical character) and a small singlet–triplet energy gap (ΔES-T=?3.25 kcal mol?1 for 1 and ΔES-T=?0.92 kcal mol?1 for 2). Despite the open-shell radical character, both compounds display exceptional stability under ambient air and light conditions owing to effective delocalization of unpaired electrons in the extended cyclic π-conjugation pathway.