Oct, 2016
Cationic pi-Stacking Columns of Coronene Molecules with Fully Charged and Charge-Disproportionated States
CRYSTAL GROWTH & DESIGN
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- Volume
- 16
- Number
- 10
- First page
- 5994
- Last page
- 6000
- Language
- English
- Publishing type
- Research paper (scientific journal)
- DOI
- 10.1021/acs.cgd.6b01039
- Publisher
- AMER CHEMICAL SOC
Electrochemical oxidation of a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, coronene, with D-6h symmetry in the presence of tetrahedral GaCl4- anions gave two cation salts, (coronene)(GaC14) (1) and (coronene)(5)(GaCl4)(2) (2), with unprecedented charge arrangements. Salt 1 involves pi-stacking columns in a zigzag manner, which are composed of the crystallographically equivalent coronene monocations. First-principle calculations revealed that the,dimerization of coronene cations gives rise to a band gap opening at the Fermi level, and thus, semiconducting behavior. On the other hand; in salt 2, two crystallographically independent coronene molecules (A and B) form pi-stacking columns with an AABB repeating unit, which are flanked by another coronene molecule (C). The crystallographic features, such as interplanar distances and in-plane molecular distortions arising from the Jahn-Teller effect, as well as the first-principle calculations, strongly suggested the emergence of charge disproportionation within the pi-stacking columns. As in the case of 1, the calculated band structure exhibits a band gap opening at the Fermi level; which corresponds to the observed semiconducting behavior.
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- DOI : 10.1021/acs.cgd.6b01039
- ISSN : 1528-7483
- eISSN : 1528-7505
- Web of Science ID : WOS:000384952400047