Abstract
Most organic radicals possess short lifetimes and quickly undergo dimerization or oxidation. Here, we report on the synthesis by radical templation of a class of air- and water-stable organic radicals, trapped within a homo[2]catenane composed of two rigid and fixed cyclobis (paraquat-p- phenylene) rings. The highly energetic octacationic homo[2]catenane, which is capable of accepting up to eight electrons, can be configured reversibly, both chemically and electrochemically, between each one of six experimentally accessible redox states (0, 2+, 4+, 6+, 7+, and 8+) from within the total of nine states evaluated by quantum mechanical methods. All six of the observable redox states have been identified by electrochemical techniques, three (4+, 6+, and 7+) have been characterized by x-ray crystallography, four (4+, 6+, 7+, and 8+) by electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy, one (7+) by superconducting quantum interference device magnetometry, and one (8+) by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 429-433 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Science |
Volume | 339 |
Issue number | 6118 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 25 2013 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General
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CCDC 855031: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination
Barnes, J. C. (Creator), Fahrenbach, A. C. (Creator), Cao, D. (Creator), Dyar, S. M. (Creator), Frasconi, M. (Creator), Giesener, M. A. (Creator), Benítez, D. (Contributor), Tkatchouk, E. (Creator), Chernyashevskyy, O. (Creator), Shin, W. H. (Creator), Li, H. (Creator), Sampath, S. (Creator), Stern, C. L. (Creator), Sarjeant, A. A. (Creator), Hartlieb, K. J. (Creator), Liu, Z. (Creator), Carmieli, R. (Creator), Botros, Y. Y. (Creator), Choi, J. W. (Creator), Slawin, A. M. Z. (Creator), Ketterson, J. B. (Creator), Wasielewski, M. R. (Creator), Goddard III, W. A. (Contributor) & Stoddart, J. F. (Creator), Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, 2013
DOI: 10.5517/ccxpqny, http://www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/services/structure_request?id=doi:10.5517/ccxpqny&sid=DataCite
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CCDC 889233: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination
Barnes, J. C. (Creator), Fahrenbach, A. C. (Creator), Cao, D. (Creator), Dyar, S. M. (Creator), Frasconi, M. (Creator), Giesener, M. A. (Creator), Benítez, D. (Contributor), Tkatchouk, E. (Creator), Chernyashevskyy, O. (Creator), Shin, W. H. (Creator), Li, H. (Creator), Sampath, S. (Creator), Stern, C. L. (Creator), Sarjeant, A. A. (Creator), Hartlieb, K. J. (Creator), Liu, Z. (Creator), Carmieli, R. (Creator), Botros, Y. Y. (Creator), Choi, J. W. (Creator), Slawin, A. M. Z. (Creator), Ketterson, J. B. (Creator), Wasielewski, M. R. (Creator), Goddard III, W. A. (Contributor) & Stoddart, J. F. (Creator), Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, 2013
DOI: 10.5517/ccyv9y0, http://www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/services/structure_request?id=doi:10.5517/ccyv9y0&sid=DataCite
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CCDC 855030: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination
Barnes, J. C. (Creator), Fahrenbach, A. C. (Creator), Cao, D. (Creator), Dyar, S. M. (Creator), Frasconi, M. (Creator), Giesener, M. A. (Creator), Benítez, D. (Contributor), Tkatchouk, E. (Creator), Chernyashevskyy, O. (Creator), Shin, W. H. (Creator), Li, H. (Creator), Sampath, S. (Creator), Stern, C. L. (Creator), Sarjeant, A. A. (Creator), Hartlieb, K. J. (Creator), Liu, Z. (Creator), Carmieli, R. (Creator), Botros, Y. Y. (Creator), Choi, J. W. (Creator), Slawin, A. M. Z. (Creator), Ketterson, J. B. (Creator), Wasielewski, M. R. (Creator), Goddard III, W. A. (Contributor) & Stoddart, J. F. (Creator), Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, 2013
DOI: 10.5517/ccxpqmx, http://www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/services/structure_request?id=doi:10.5517/ccxpqmx&sid=DataCite
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