Persistent and stable organic radicals: Design, synthesis, and applications

ZX Chen, Y Li, F Huang - Chem, 2021 - cell.com
Open-shell radicals are usually thermodynamically and kinetically unstable due to their
incompletely satisfied valency. However, the rapid development of radical chemistry in the …

Organic semiconductor crystals

C Wang, H Dong, L Jiang, W Hu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Organic semiconductors have attracted a lot of attention since the discovery of highly doped
conductive polymers, due to the potential application in field-effect transistors (OFETs), light …

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 …

High-performance five-ring-fused organic semiconductors for field-effect transistors

H Jiang, S Zhu, Z Cui, Z Li, Y Liang, J Zhu… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Organic molecular semiconductors have been paid great attention due to their advantages
of low-temperature processability, low fabrication cost, good flexibility, and excellent …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Explorations of the indenofluorenes and expanded quinoidal analogues

CK Frederickson, BD Rose… - Accounts of Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Highly conjugated hydrocarbons have attracted interest for use as active
materials in electronic devices such as organic field effect transistors (OFET) and organic …

Diradical B/N‐Doped Polycyclic Hydrocarbons

J Guo, Z Li, X Tian, T Zhang, Y Wang… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Heterocyclic diradicaloids with atom‐precise control over open‐shell nature are promising
materials for organic electronics and spintronics. Herein, we disclose quinoidal π‐extension …

Antiaromatic covalent organic frameworks based on dibenzopentalenes

J Sprachmann, T Wachsmuth, M Bhosale… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Despite their inherent instability, 4 n π systems have recently received significant attention
due to their unique optical and electronic properties. In dibenzopentalene (DBP) …