Exploiting the Aromatic Chameleon Character of Fulvenes for Computational Design of Triplet Ground State Compounds
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2019-06-12T08:12:40Z
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2021-04-07T08:03:01Z
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2019-05-15
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2192-6506
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Due to the reversal in electron counts for aromaticity and antiaromaticity in the closed-shell singlet state (normally ground state, S0) and lowest * triplet state (T1 or T0), as given by Hückel's and Baird's rules, respectively, fulvenes are influenced by their substituents in the opposite manner in the T1 and S0 states. This effect is caused by a reversal in the dipole moment when going from S0 to T1 as fulvenes adapt to the difference in electron counts for aromaticity in various states; they are aromatic chameleons. Thus, a substituent pattern that enhances (reduces) fulvene aromaticity in S0 reduces (enhances) aromaticity in T1, allowing for rationalizations of the triplet state energies (ET) of substituted fulvenes. Through quantum chemical calculations we now assess which substituents and which positions on the pentafulvene core are the most powerful for designing compounds with low or inverted ET. As a means to increase the -electron withdrawing capacity of cyano groups we found that protonation at the cyano N atoms of 6,6-dicyanopentafulvenes can be a route to on-demand formation of a fulvenium dication with a triplet ground state (T0). The five-membered ring of this species is markedly Baird-aromatic, although less than the cyclopentadienyl cation known to have a Baird-aromatic T0 state
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M.S. is grateful for financial support from the Spanish MINECO (project CTQ2017-85341-P), the Catalan DIUE (2017SGR39, XRQTC, and
ICREA Academia 2014 Award), and the FEDER fund (UNGI10-4E-801)
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9 p.
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eng
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Wiley-VCH Verlag
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Versió postprint del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1002/asia.201801821
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© ChemPlusChem, 2019, vol. 14, núm. 10, p. 1870-1878
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Yadav, Sangeeta El Bakouri, Ouissam Jorner, Kjell Tong, Hui Dahlstrand, Christian Solà i Puig, Miquel Ottosson, Henrik 2019 Exploiting the Aromatic Chameleon Character of Fulvenes for Computational Design of Triplet Ground State Compounds ChemPlusChem 14 10 1870 1878
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Exploiting the Aromatic Chameleon Character of Fulvenes for Computational Design of Triplet Ground State Compounds
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2020-05-15T00:00:00Z
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029929
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peer-reviewed
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