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Mohapatra SK, Al Kurdi K, Jhulki S, Bogdanov G, Bacsa J, Conte M, Timofeeva TV, Marder SR, Barlow S. Benzoimidazolium-derived dimeric and hydride n-dopants for organic electron-transport materials: impact of substitution on structures, electrochemistry, and reactivity. Beilstein J Org Chem 2023; 19:1651-1663. [PMID: 37942021 PMCID: PMC10630679 DOI: 10.3762/bjoc.19.121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2023] [Accepted: 10/17/2023] [Indexed: 11/10/2023] Open
Abstract
1,3-Dimethyl-2,3-dihydrobenzo[d]imidazoles, 1H, and 1,1',3,3'-tetramethyl-2,2',3,3'-tetrahydro-2,2'-bibenzo[d]imidazoles, 12, are of interest as n-dopants for organic electron-transport materials. Salts of 2-(4-(dimethylamino)phenyl)-4,7-dimethoxy-, 2-cyclohexyl-4,7-dimethoxy-, and 2-(5-(dimethylamino)thiophen-2-yl)benzo[d]imidazolium (1g-i+, respectively) have been synthesized and reduced with NaBH4 to 1gH, 1hH, and 1iH, and with Na:Hg to 1g2 and 1h2. Their electrochemistry and reactivity were compared to those derived from 2-(4-(dimethylamino)phenyl)- (1b+) and 2-cyclohexylbenzo[d]imidazolium (1e+) salts. E(1+/1•) values for 2-aryl species are less reducing than for 2-alkyl analogues, i.e., the radicals are stabilized more by aryl groups than the cations, while 4,7-dimethoxy substitution leads to more reducing E(1+/1•) values, as well as cathodic shifts in E(12•+/12) and E(1H•+/1H) values. Both the use of 3,4-dimethoxy and 2-aryl substituents accelerates the reaction of the 1H species with PC61BM. Because 2-aryl groups stabilize radicals, 1b2 and 1g2 exhibit weaker bonds than 1e2 and 1h2 and thus react with 6,13-bis(triisopropylsilylethynyl)pentacene (VII) via a "cleavage-first" pathway, while 1e2 and 1h2 react only via "electron-transfer-first". 1h2 exhibits the most cathodic E(12•+/12) value of the dimers considered here and, therefore, reacts more rapidly than any of the other dimers with VII via "electron-transfer-first". Crystal structures show rather long central C-C bonds for 1b2 (1.5899(11) and 1.6194(8) Å) and 1h2 (1.6299(13) Å).
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- Swagat K Mohapatra
- Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics and School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 80007, United States
- Department of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Institute of Chemical Technology—Indian Oil Campus, ITT Kharagpur Extension Center, Bhubaneswar 751013 Odisha, India
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- Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics and School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 80007, United States
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- Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics and School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 80007, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas, New Mexico 87701, United States
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- Crystallography Lab, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, United States
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- Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics and School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 80007, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas, New Mexico 87701, United States
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- Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics and School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 80007, United States
- Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI), University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Chemistry and Nanoscience Center, Golden, Colorado, 80401, United States
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- Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics and School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 80007, United States
- Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI), University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Chemistry and Nanoscience Center, Golden, Colorado, 80401, United States
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Zhao Q, Espuche B, Kang N, Moya S, Astruc D. Cobalt sandwich-stabilized rhodium nanocatalysts for ammonia borane and tetrahydroxydiboron hydrolysis. Inorg Chem Front 2022. [DOI: 10.1039/d2qi01313d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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A bulky organocobalt sandwich-supported Rh nanoparticle is an efficient, stable and recyclable nanocatalyst for hydrolysis of both ammonia borane and tetrahydroxydiboron to H2.
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- Qiuxia Zhao
- ISM, UMR CNRS N° 5255, Univ. Bordeaux, 33405 Talence Cedex, France
- LCC, CNRS & University of Toulouse III, 205 Route de Narbonne, 31077 Toulouse Cedex, France
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- Soft Matter Nanotechnology Group, CIC biomaGUNE, Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Paseo Miramón 182, 20014 San Sebastián, Guipúzcoa, Spain
- POLYMAT, Applied Chemistry Department, Faculty of Chemistry, University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU, Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal 3, Donostia-San Sebastián, 20018, Spain
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- ISM, UMR CNRS N° 5255, Univ. Bordeaux, 33405 Talence Cedex, France
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- Soft Matter Nanotechnology Group, CIC biomaGUNE, Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Paseo Miramón 182, 20014 San Sebastián, Guipúzcoa, Spain
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- ISM, UMR CNRS N° 5255, Univ. Bordeaux, 33405 Talence Cedex, France
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Longhi E, Risko C, Bacsa J, Khrustalev V, Rigin S, Moudgil K, Timofeeva TV, Marder SR, Barlow S. Synthesis, structures, and reactivity of isomers of [RuCp*(1,4-(Me 2N) 2C 6H 4)] 2. Dalton Trans 2021; 50:13020-13030. [PMID: 34581359 DOI: 10.1039/d1dt02155a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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[RuCp*(1,3,5-R3C6H3)]2 {Cp* = η5-pentamethylcyclopentadienyl, R = Me, Et} have previously been found to be moderately air stable, yet highly reducing, with estimated D+/0.5D2 (where D2 and D+ represent the dimer and the corresponding monomeric cation, respectively) redox potentials of ca. -2.0 V vs. FeCp2+/0. These properties have led to their use as n-dopants for organic semiconductors. Use of arenes substituted with π-electron donors is anticipated to lead to even more strongly reducing dimers. [RuCp*(1-(Me2N)-3,5-Me2C6H3)]+PF6- and [RuCp*(1,4-(Me2N)2C6H4)]+PF6- have been synthesized and electrochemically and crystallographically characterized; both exhibit D+/D potentials slightly more cathodic than [RuCp*(1,3,5-R3C6H3)]+. Reduction of [RuCp*(1,4-(Me2N)2C6H4)]+PF6- using silica-supported sodium-potassium alloy leads to a mixture of isomers of [RuCp*(1,4-(Me2N)2C6H4)]2, two of which have been crystallographically characterized. One of these isomers has a similar molecular structure to [RuCp*(1,3,5-Et3C6H3)]2; the central C-C bond is exo,exo, i.e., on the opposite face of both six-membered rings from the metals. A D+/0.5D2 potential of -2.4 V is estimated for this exo,exo dimer, more reducing than that of [RuCp*(1,3,5-R3C6H3)]2 (-2.0 V). This isomer reacts much more rapidly with both air and electron acceptors than [RuCp*(1,3,5-R3C6H3)]2 due to a much more cathodic D2˙+/D2 potential. The other isomer to be crystallographically characterized, along with a third isomer, are both dimerized in an exo,endo fashion, representing the first examples of such dimers. Density functional theory calculations and reactivity studies indicate that the central bonds of these two isomers are weaker than those of the exo,exo isomer, or of [RuCp*(1,3,5-R3C6H3)]2, leading to estimated D+/0.5D2 potentials of -2.5 and -2.6 V vs. FeCp2+/0. At the same time the D2˙+/D2 potentials for the exo,endo dimers are anodically shifted relative to those of [RuCp*(1,3,5-R3C6H3)]2, resulting in much greater air stability than for the exo,exo isomer.
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- Elena Longhi
- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry & Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0400, USA
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- Department of Chemistry & Center for Applied Energy Research (CAER), University of Kentucky, 125 Chemistry-Physics Building, Lexington, KY 40506, USA
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- Crystallography Lab, Emory University, 201 Dowman Drive, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas, NM 87701, USA.,Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, Moscow 117198, Russia
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- Department of Chemistry, New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas, NM 87701, USA
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- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry & Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0400, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas, NM 87701, USA
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- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry & Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0400, USA.,Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI), University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80303, USA. .,Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80303, USA.,Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80303, USA.,Chemistry and Nanoscience Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO 80401, USA
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- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry & Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0400, USA.,Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI), University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80303, USA.
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