A remarkably air-stable quinodimethane radical cation

Mei Harada; Masaru Tanioka; Atsuya Muranaka; Tetsuya Aoyama; Shinichiro Kamino; Masanobu Uchiyama

doi:10.1039/d0cc04025h

A remarkably air-stable quinodimethane radical cation

Chem Commun (Camb). 2020 Aug 19;56(66):9565-9568. doi: 10.1039/d0cc04025h.

Authors

Mei Harada¹, Masaru Tanioka², Atsuya Muranaka³, Tetsuya Aoyama³, Shinichiro Kamino⁴, Masanobu Uchiyama⁵

Affiliations

¹ Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan. uchiyama@mol.f.u-tokyo.ac.jp.
² Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan. uchiyama@mol.f.u-tokyo.ac.jp and School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Aichi Gakuin University, Aichi 464-8650, Japan.
³ Cluster of Pioneering Research (CPR), Advanced Elements Chemistry Laboratory, RIKEN, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan. atsuya-muranaka@riken.jp.
⁴ School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Aichi Gakuin University, Aichi 464-8650, Japan.
⁵ Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan. uchiyama@mol.f.u-tokyo.ac.jp and Cluster of Pioneering Research (CPR), Advanced Elements Chemistry Laboratory, RIKEN, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan. atsuya-muranaka@riken.jp and Research Initiative for Supra-Materials (RISM), Shinshu University, 3-15-1 Tokida, Ueda, Nagano 386-8567, Japan.

PMID: 32691766
DOI: 10.1039/d0cc04025h

Abstract

An ambient-stable radical cation of a Thiele's hydrocarbon derivative has been synthesized and its properties have been explored using a combined experimental and computational approach. The radical cation exhibited several intense near-infrared absorption bands and its solution-processed thin films showed high electrical conductivity at room temperature.