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Single-Component Conductors: A Sturdy Electronic Structure Generated by Bulky Substituents
Filatre-Furcate, Agathe,Bellec, Nathalie,Jeannin, Olivier,Auban-Senzier, Pascale,Fourmigué, Marc,íniguez, Jorge,Canadell, Enric,Brière, Benjamin,Ta Phuoc, Vinh,Lorcy, Dominique
, p. 6036 - 6046 (2016)
While the introduction of large, bulky substituents such as tert-butyl, a'SiMe3, or a'Si(isopropyl)3 has been used recently to control the solid state structures and charge mobility of organic semiconductors, this crystal engineering strategy is usually avoided in molecular metals where a maximized overlap is sought. In order to investigate such steric effects in single component conductors, the ethyl group of the known [Au(Et-Thiazdt)2] radical complex has been replaced by an isopropyl one to give a novel single component molecular conductor denoted [Au(iPr-Thiazdt)2] (iPr-Thiazdt: N-isopropyl-1,3-Thiazoline-2-Thione-4,5-dithiolate). It exhibits a very original stacked structure of crisscross molecules interacting laterally to give a truly three-dimensional network. This system is weakly conducting at ambient pressure (5 S·cm-1), and both transport and optical measurements evidence a slowly decreasing energy gap under applied pressure with a regime change around 1.5 GPa. In contrast with other conducting systems amenable to a metallic state under physical or chemical pressure, the Mott insulating state is stable here up to 4 GPa, a consequence of its peculiar electronic structure.
