Benzo‐extended cyclohepta[def]fluorene derivatives with very low‐lying triplet 
states

Wu, Fupeng; Ma, Ji; Lombardi, Federico; Fu, Yubin; Liu, Fupin; Huang, Zhijie; Liu, Renxiang; Komber, Hartmut; Alexandropoulos, Dimitris I.; Dmitrieva, Evgenia; Lohr, Thorsten G.; Israel, Noel; Popov, Alexey A.; Liu, Junzhi; Bogani, Lapo; Feng, Xinliang

doi:10.1002/anie.202202170

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Benzo‐extended cyclohepta[def]fluorene derivatives with very low‐lying triplet states

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Feng, Xinliang
Department of Synthetic Materials and Functional Devices (SMFD), Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Wu, F., Ma, J., Lombardi, F., Fu, Y., Liu, F., Huang, Z., et al. (2022). Benzo‐extended cyclohepta[def]fluorene derivatives with very low‐lying triplet states. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 61(23): e202202170. doi:10.1002/anie.202202170.

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Abstract

Open-shell non-alternant polycyclic hydrocarbons (PHs) are attracting increasing attention due to their promising applications in organic spintronics and quantum computing. Herein we report the synthesis of three cyclohepta[def]fluorene-based diradicaloids (1–3), by fusion of benzo rings on its periphery for the thermodynamic stabilization, as evidenced by multiple characterization techniques. Remarkably, all of them display a very narrow optical energy gap (E_g^opt=0.52–0.69 eV) and persistent stability under ambient conditions (t_1/2=11.7–33.3 h). More importantly, this new type of diradicaloids possess a low-lying triplet state with an extremely small singlet–triplet energy gap, as low as 0.002 kcal mol⁻¹, with a clear dependence on the molecular size. This family of compounds thus offers a new route to create non-alternant open-shell PHs with high-spin ground states, and opens up novel possibilities and insights into understanding the structure–property relationships.