Triplet Dication and Quartet Trication of a Triaminobenzene
Triplet Dication and Quartet Trication of a Triaminobenzene
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DOI:
10.1021/ja00104a051
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发表时间:
1994-12
影响因子:
15
通讯作者:
Kurt R. Stickley;S. C. Blackstock
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作者:
Kurt R. Stickley;S. C. Blackstock
The prospect of synthesizing magnetic materials based on organic systems has led to continued interest in high-spin organic molecules which might serve as building blocks for the preparation of bulk magnetic materials. 1-4 Spin centers such as carbon radicals, 5-7 triplet carbenes, 8-11 and nitroxide radi-cals12· 13 have been “ferromagnetically” linked to give high-spin polyradical molecules. Our approach utilizes nitrogen cation radicals as the spin unit. This approach allows, in principle, molecular magnetism to be switched on or off and turned up or down by application of an external electric potential to control the redox state (and spin state) of a molecule or, ultimately, of a bulk material. To this end, we report the solution-stable cationic, dicationic, and tricationic states of N, N, N', N', N", N"-hexaanisyl-1, 3, 5-triaminobenzene (HATAB) for which we observe doublet, triplet, and quartet spin states, respectively. Several decades of fundamental research on the structural relationships that govern spin state preference in organic bi-and polyradicals have produced a coherent rationale for control-ling the spin preference in organic systems. 14· 15 For example, Ovchinnikov’s rule16 can be used to predict, to a first order, the ground state spin multiplicity of alternant systems. This rule specifies non-Kekulé structures such as m-quinodimethane (MQDM) 17 and tetraphenyl-m-quinodimethane18· 19 as ground state triplets, as is also known experimentally. Substitution of the third meta position on a benzene core with a third spincenter leads to further propagation of high-spin preference in theory