A crystalline radical cation derived from Thiele's hydrocarbon with redox range beyond 1 V.


Journal

Nature communications
ISSN: 2041-1723
Titre abrégé: Nat Commun
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101528555

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Date de publication:
03 Dec 2021
Historique:
received: 08 06 2021
accepted: 03 11 2021
entrez: 4 12 2021
pubmed: 5 12 2021
medline: 5 12 2021
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Thiele's hydrocarbon occupies a central role as an open-shell platform for new organic materials, however little is known about its redox behaviour. While recent synthetic approaches involving symmetrical carbene substitution of the CPh

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pubmed: 34862371
doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-27104-y
pii: 10.1038/s41467-021-27104-y
pmc: PMC8642399
doi:

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eng

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7052

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Organisme : Academy of Finland (Suomen Akatemia)
ID : 314794
Organisme : RCUK | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
ID : EP/V036408/1
Organisme : RCUK | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
ID : EP/L011972/1
Organisme : Leverhulme Trust
ID : RP-2018-246

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© 2021. The Author(s).

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Auteurs

Ying Kai Loh (YK)

Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QR, UK.

Petra Vasko (P)

Department of Chemistry, Nanoscience Center, University of Jyväskylä, P. O. Box 35, Jyväskylä, FI-40014, Finland.

Caitilín McManus (C)

Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QR, UK.

Andreas Heilmann (A)

Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QR, UK.

William K Myers (WK)

Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QR, UK.

Simon Aldridge (S)

Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QR, UK. simon.aldridge@chem.ox.ac.uk.

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