posted on 2021-12-13, 18:05authored byFan Wu, Kosuke Oki, Jiaying Xue, Shigeki Mori, Masayoshi Takase, Zhen Shen, Hidemitsu Uno
A rigid
wing-shaped bicyclo[2.2.2]octadiene-fused bis-hexapyrrolohexaazacoronene
(HPHAC) is synthesized, and subsequent chemical oxidation affords
a stable biradical dication and an aromatic tetracation. The physicochemical
properties and single-crystal structures in various oxidation states
are characterized. The face-to-face π-stacked dimeric structures
are observed in the neutral and dicationic states. The HPHAC flakes
can act as aromatic walls in a tetracation state, producing enlarged
induced magnetic shielding space through the superimposition effect.