Diradicals

M Abe - Chemical Reviews, 2013 - ACS Publications
Open-shell molecules such as radicals, carbenes, and electronically excited-state molecules
exhibit high energies, and thus, in general, they are quite reactive. 1 The short-lived species …

Molecular carbons: How far can we go?

MW Wang, W Fan, X Li, Y Liu, Z Li, W Jiang, J Wu… - Acs Nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
The creation and development of carbon nanomaterials promoted material science
significantly. Bottom-up synthesis has emerged as an efficient strategy to synthesize …

Halogen hydrogen-bonded organic framework (XHOF) constructed by singlet open-shell diradical for efficient photoreduction of U (VI)

L Feng, Y Yuan, B Yan, T Feng, Y Jian, J Zhang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Synthesis of framework materials possessing specific spatial structures or containing
functional ligands has attracted tremendous attention. Herein, a halogen hydrogen-bonded …

Boron-containing organic diradicaloids: dynamically modulating singlet diradical character by lewis acid–base coordination

J Guo, Y Yang, C Dou, Y Wang - Journal of the American …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Organic diradicaloids have unique open-shell structures and properties and promising
applications in organic electronics and spintronics. Incorporation of heteroatoms is an …

Low band gap polycyclic hydrocarbons: from closed-shell near infrared dyes and semiconductors to open-shell radicals

Z Sun, Q Ye, C Chi, J Wu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Low band gap (Eg< 1.5 eV) polycyclic hydrocarbons have become one of the most important
types of materials for many applications, for example, as semiconductors in organic field …

Open-shell graphene fragments

W Zeng, J Wu - Chem, 2021 - cell.com
The electronic properties of finite-sized graphene fragments are strongly dependent on their
topological structures. The existence of two or more extended zigzag edges could lead to …

Pro-aromatic and anti-aromatic π-conjugated molecules: an irresistible wish to be diradicals

Z Zeng, X Shi, C Chi, JTL Navarrete… - Chemical Society …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Aromaticity is an important concept to understand the stability and physical properties of π-
conjugated molecules. Recent studies on pro-aromatic and anti-aromatic molecules …

Diindeno-fusion of an anthracene as a design strategy for stable organic biradicals

GE Rudebusch, JL Zafra, K Jorner, K Fukuda… - Nature Chemistry, 2016 - nature.com
The consequence of unpaired electrons in organic molecules has fascinated and
confounded chemists for over a century. The study of open-shell molecules has been …

Zethrenes, Extended p-Quinodimethanes, and Periacenes with a Singlet Biradical Ground State

Z Sun, Z Zeng, J Wu - Accounts of chemical research, 2014 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Researchers have studied polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) for more
than 100 years, and most PAHs in the neutral state reported so far have a closed-shell …

Rational synthesis of atomically precise graphene nanoribbons directly on metal oxide surfaces

M Kolmer, AK Steiner, I Izydorczyk, W Ko, M Engelund… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Atomically precise graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) attract great interest because of their
highly tunable electronic, optical, and transport properties. However, on-surface synthesis of …