Organic Four-Electron Redox Systems Based on Bipyridine and Phenanthroline Carbene Architectures

Autor: Patrick W. Antoni, Christopher Golz, Max M. Hansmann
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English). 61(24)
ISSN: 1521-3773
Popis: Novel organic redox systems that display multistage redox behaviour are highly sought-after for a series of applications such as organic batteries or electrochromic materials. Here we describe a simple strategy to transfer well-known two-electron redox active bipyridine and phenanthroline architectures into novel strongly reducing four-electron redox systems featuring fully reversible redox events with up to five stable oxidation states. We give spectroscopic and structural insight into the changes involved in the redox-events and present characterization data on all isolated oxidation states. The redox-systems feature strong UV/Vis/NIR polyelectrochromic properties such as distinct strong NIR absorptions in the mixed valence states. Two-electron charge-discharge cycling studies indicate high electrochemical stability at strongly negative potentials, rendering the new redox architectures promising lead structures for multi-electron anolyte materials.
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