A stable tetrazagallole and its radical anion dimer

Qian Yu; Li Zhang; Yuhao He; Jinjing Pan; Hao Li; Guo-Qing Bian; Xiaodan Chen; Gengwen Tan

doi:10.1039/d1cc03448k

A stable tetrazagallole and its radical anion dimer

Chem Commun (Camb). 2021 Sep 14;57(73):9268-9271. doi: 10.1039/d1cc03448k.

Authors

Qian Yu¹, Li Zhang², Yuhao He¹, Jinjing Pan¹, Hao Li¹, Guo-Qing Bian¹, Xiaodan Chen³, Gengwen Tan¹

Affiliations

¹ College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China. gwtan@suda.edu.cn.
² Center of Materials Science and Engineering, Guangxi University of Science and Technology, Liuzhou 545006, China.
³ College of Chemistry and Material, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China.

PMID: 34519308
DOI: 10.1039/d1cc03448k

Abstract

The reaction of the carbazole ligand supported Ga(I) compound LGa(THF) (3) and 1-azido-4-(tert-butyl)benzene (ArN₃) afforded the first stable tetrazagallole LGaN₄Ar₂ (4) bearing a three-coordinate Ga atom. Reduction of 4 with elemental potassium resulted in the radical dimer {[K(18-c-6)]⁺[4]˙^-}₂, featuring a strong antiferromagnetic interaction between the spin centers.