Université de Fribourg

Versatile synthesis of chiral 6-oxoverdazyl radical ligands – new building blocks for multifunctional molecule-based magnets

Solea, Atena B. ; Wohlhauser, Tobie ; Abbasi, Parisa ; Mongbanziama, Yvan ; Crochet, Aurélien ; Fromm, Katharina M. ; Novitchi, Ghenadie ; Train, Cyrille ; Pilkington, Melanie ; Mamula, Olimpia

In: Dalton Transactions, 2018, vol. 47, no. 14, p. 4785–4789

A versatile synthetic methodology to access the first family of chiral verdazyl N,N′- chelate ligands is described and exemplified by N,N′-dimethyl-, N,N′-di-isopropyl- and N,N′-diphenyl oxoverdazyls bearing two isomers of the pinene-pyridine functional group. Their physical properties were probed by X-band EPR spectroscopy, cyclic voltammetry and DFT calculations. Preliminary...