A new building block for electroactive organic materials? Synthesis, cyclic voltammetry, single crystal X-ray structure, and DFT treatment of a unique boron-based viologen

Scott C Dorman; Richard A O'Brien; Adam T Lewis; E Alan Salter; Andrzej Wierzbicki; Paul W Hixon; Richard E Sykora; Arsalan Mirjafari; James H Davis Jr

doi:10.1039/c1cc12265g

A new building block for electroactive organic materials? Synthesis, cyclic voltammetry, single crystal X-ray structure, and DFT treatment of a unique boron-based viologen

Chem Commun (Camb). 2011 Aug 28;47(32):9072-4. doi: 10.1039/c1cc12265g. Epub 2011 Jul 13.

Authors

Scott C Dorman¹, Richard A O'Brien, Adam T Lewis, E Alan Salter, Andrzej Wierzbicki, Paul W Hixon, Richard E Sykora, Arsalan Mirjafari, James H Davis Jr

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, Birmingham Southern College, Birmingham, Alabama 35254, USA. sdorman@bsc.edu

PMID: 21750814
DOI: 10.1039/c1cc12265g

Abstract

A boronium-based paraquat analog undergoes reductions at more negative potentials than paraquat itself, making it a promising building block for electroactive materials.