Abstract
Unprecedented neutral perylene-3,4:9,10-tetracarboxylic acid bisimide (PBI) radicals and biradicals were synthesized by facile chemical oxidation of 4-hydroxyaryl-substituted PBIs. Subsequent characterization by optical and magnetic spectroscopic techniques, as well as quantum chemical calculations, revealed an open-shell singlet biradical ground state for the PBI biradical OS-2. (〈2〉=1.2191) with a relatively small singlet-triplet energy gap of 0.041 eV and a large singlet biradical character of y=0.72.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 13980-13984 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Angewandte Chemie - International Edition |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue number | 47 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 16 Nov 2015 |
Keywords
- biradicals
- dyes
- perylene bisimides
- pigments
- radicals