Bilayer Molecular Metals Based on Dissymmetrical Electron Donors

Inorg Chem. 2015 Jul 20;54(14):6677-9. doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b01240. Epub 2015 Jun 30.

Abstract

The electrocrystallization from solutions of cyanobenzene-ethylenedithio-tetrathiafulvalene (CNB-EDT-TTF) in the presence of different anions X = ClO4(-), PF6(-), and I3(-), affords a new type of 2D molecular metals with composition (CNB-EDT-TTF)4X based on an unprecedented bilayer structure of the donors induced by effective head to head interdonor interactions through the nitrile groups, which is responsible for 2D metallic systems with unusual properties such as the higher band filling, larger effective mass of carriers, and almost degenerated double Fermi surfaces.