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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 142, Issue 9, Pages 4329-4340Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b12683
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- National Science Foundation of China [51573076]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2018M641626]
- Junta de Andalucia [UMA18-FEDERJA-080]
- NRF of Korea [NRF-2016M1A2A2940911, 2019R1A6A1A11044070]
- National Research Foundation of Korea [2016M1A2A2940911] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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Unpaired electrons of organic radicals can offer high electrical conductivity without doping, but they typically suffer from low stability. Herein, we report two organic diradicaloids based on quinoidal oligothiophene derivative (QOT), that is, BTICN and QTICN, with high stability and conductivity by employing imide-bridged fused molecular frameworks. The attachment of a strong electron-withdrawing imide group to the tetracyano-capped QOT backbones enables extremely deeply aligned LUMO levels (from -4.58 to -4.69 eV), cross-conjugated diradical characters, and remarkable ambient stabilities of the diradicaloids with half-lives > 60 days, which are among the highest for QOT diradicals and also the widely explored polyaromatic hydrocarbon (PAH)-based diradicals. Specifically, QTICN based on a tetrathiophene imide exhibits a cross-conjugation assisted self-doping in the film state as revealed by XPS and Raman studies. This property in combination with its ordered packing yields a high electrical conductivity of 0.34 S cm(-1) for the QTICN films with substantial ambient stability, which is also among the highest values in organic radical -based undoped conductive materials reported to date. When used as an n-type thermoelectric material, QTICN shows a promising power factor of 1.52 uW m(-1) K-2. Our results not only provide new insights into the electron conduction mechanism of the self-doped QOT diradicaloids but also demonstrate the great potential of fused quinoidal oligothiophene imides in developing stable diradicals and high-performance doping-free n-type conductive materials.
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