TY - JOUR
T1 - Dibenzoheptazethrene isomers with different biradical characters: An exercise of clar's aromatic sextet rule in singlet biradicaloids
AU - Sun, Zhe
AU - Lee, Sangsu
AU - Park, Kyuhyung
AU - Zhu, Xiaojian
AU - Zhang, Wenhua
AU - Zheng, Bin
AU - Hu, Pan
AU - Zeng, Zebing
AU - Das, Soumyajit
AU - Li, Yuan
AU - Chi, Chunyan
AU - Li, Runwei
AU - Huang, Kuo-Wei
AU - Ding, Jun
AU - Kim, Dongho
AU - Wu, Jishan
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledgements: J.W. acknowledges financial support from a MOE Tier 2 grant (MOE2011-T2-2-130) and IMRE Core funding (IMRE/13-1C0205). The work at Yonsei University was supported by the Midcareer Researcher Program (2010-0029668) and the Global Research Laboratory (2013K1A1A2A02050183) through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) and Future Planning. K.-W.H. acknowledges financial support from KAUST.
PY - 2013/11/20
Y1 - 2013/11/20
N2 - Clar's aromatic sextet rule has been widely used for the prediction of the reactivity and stability of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons with a closed-shell electronic configuration. Recent advances in open-shell biradicaloids have shown that the number of aromatic sextet rings plays an important role in determination of their ground states. In order to test the validity of this rule in singlet biradicaloids, the two soluble and stable dibenzoheptazethrene isomers DBHZ1 and DBHZ2 were prepared by different synthetic approaches and isolated in crystalline form. These two molecules have different numbers of aromatic sextet rings in their respective biradical resonance forms and thus are expected to exhibit varied singlet biradical character. This assumption was verified by different experimental methods, including nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), electron spin resonance (ESR), superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID), steady-state and transient absorption spectroscopy (TA), and X-ray crystallographic analysis, assisted by unrestricted symmetry-broken density functional theory (DFT) calculations. DBHZ2, with more aromatic sextet rings in the biradical form, was demonstrated to possess greater biradical character than DBHZ1; as a result, DBHZ2 exhibited an intense one-photon absorption (OPA) in the near-infrared region (λabs max = 804 nm) and a large two-photon absorption (TPA) cross-section (σ(2)max = 2800 GM at 1600 nm). This investigation together with previous studies indicates that Clar's aromatic sextet rule can be further extended to the singlet biradicaloids to predict their ground states and singlet biradical characters. © 2013 American Chemical Society.
AB - Clar's aromatic sextet rule has been widely used for the prediction of the reactivity and stability of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons with a closed-shell electronic configuration. Recent advances in open-shell biradicaloids have shown that the number of aromatic sextet rings plays an important role in determination of their ground states. In order to test the validity of this rule in singlet biradicaloids, the two soluble and stable dibenzoheptazethrene isomers DBHZ1 and DBHZ2 were prepared by different synthetic approaches and isolated in crystalline form. These two molecules have different numbers of aromatic sextet rings in their respective biradical resonance forms and thus are expected to exhibit varied singlet biradical character. This assumption was verified by different experimental methods, including nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), electron spin resonance (ESR), superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID), steady-state and transient absorption spectroscopy (TA), and X-ray crystallographic analysis, assisted by unrestricted symmetry-broken density functional theory (DFT) calculations. DBHZ2, with more aromatic sextet rings in the biradical form, was demonstrated to possess greater biradical character than DBHZ1; as a result, DBHZ2 exhibited an intense one-photon absorption (OPA) in the near-infrared region (λabs max = 804 nm) and a large two-photon absorption (TPA) cross-section (σ(2)max = 2800 GM at 1600 nm). This investigation together with previous studies indicates that Clar's aromatic sextet rule can be further extended to the singlet biradicaloids to predict their ground states and singlet biradical characters. © 2013 American Chemical Society.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/563140
UR - https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja410279j
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84889797865&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1021/ja410279j
DO - 10.1021/ja410279j
M3 - Article
SN - 0002-7863
VL - 135
SP - 18229
EP - 18236
JO - Journal of the American Chemical Society
JF - Journal of the American Chemical Society
IS - 48
ER -