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 …

Global aromaticity in macrocyclic polyradicaloids: Huckel's rule or baird's rule?

C Liu, Y Ni, X Lu, G Li, J Wu - Accounts of chemical research, 2019 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Aromaticity is one of the most important concepts in organic chemistry to
understand the electronic properties of cyclic π-conjugated molecules. Over a century …

From open-shell singlet diradicaloids to polyradicaloids

TY Gopalakrishna, W Zeng, X Lu, J Wu - Chemical Communications, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
In this Feature Article, we highlight our recent efforts toward stable open-shell singlet
diradicaloids and polyradicaloids. A brief review on the historical works in the area is …

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 …

Stable organic diradicals based on fused quinoidal oligothiophene imides with high electrical conductivity

K Yang, X Zhang, A Harbuzaru, L Wang… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Unpaired electrons of organic radicals can offer high electrical conductivity without doping,
but they typically suffer from low stability. Herein, we report two organic diradicaloids based …

Palladium-catalyzed solid-state polyfluoroarylation of aryl halides using mechanochemistry

R Takahashi, T Seo, K Kubota, H Ito - ACS catalysis, 2021 - ACS Publications
The Suzuki–Miyaura cross-coupling between polyfluorinated arylboron nucleophiles and
aryl halides enables the efficient construction of polyfluorinated structural motifs frequently …

Aromaticity in catalysis: metal ligand cooperation via ligand dearomatization and rearomatization

TP Gonçalves, I Dutta, KW Huang - Chemical Communications, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Unlike the conventional model of transition metal catalysis, ligands in metal–ligand
cooperative (or bifunctional) catalysis are involved in the substrate activations. Such …

Efficient singlet fission and triplet-pair emission in a family of zethrene diradicaloids

S Lukman, JM Richter, L Yang, P Hu, J Wu… - Journal of the …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Singlet fission offers the potential to overcome thermodynamic limits in solar cells by
converting the energy of a single absorbed photon into two distinct triplet excitons. However …

PN3(P)-Pincer Complexes: Cooperative Catalysis and Beyond

H Li, TP Gonçalves, D Lupp, KW Huang - ACS Catalysis, 2019 - ACS Publications
1. INTRODUCTION Organometallic catalysis takes advantage of the ability to introduce
highly distinctive reactivity of the corresponding metal complexes by modifying the ligand …

Recent Progress in High Linearly Fused Polycyclic Conjugated Hydrocarbons (PCHs, n > 6) with Well‐Defined Structures

W Chen, F Yu, Q Xu, G Zhou, Q Zhang - Advanced Science, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Although polycyclic conjugated hydrocarbons (PCHs) and their analogues have gained
great progress in the fields of organic photoelectronic materials, the in‐depth study on …