Fulvalene‐Based Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Ladder‐Type Structures: Synthesis and Properties

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Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) have found strong interest for their electronic properties and as model systems for graphene. While PAHs have been studied intensively as single units, here PAHs were constructed in ladder-type arrangements using cross-conjugated fulvalene and dithiafulvalene motifs as connecting units and moving forward a convenient synthetic approach for dimerizing (thio)ketones into olefins by the action of Lawesson's reagent. Some of the PAHs can also be regarded as “super-extended” tetrathiafulvalenes (TTFs) with some of the largest cores ever explored, being multi-redox systems that exhibit both reversible oxidations and reductions. Concomitant absorption redshifts were observed when expanding the ladder-type structures from one to two to three indenofluorene units, and optical and electrochemical HOMO-LUMO gaps were found to correlate linearly. Various conformations (and solid-state packing arrangements) were studied by X-ray crystallography and computations.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftChemistry: A European Journal
Vol/bind27
Udgave nummer32
Sider (fra-til)8315-8324
Antal sider11
ISSN0947-6539
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2021

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