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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
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AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c08372
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) [16K05778]
- Japan Society and Technology Agency (JST) [JPMJCR21O5]
- Japan Society and Technology Agency (JST)
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We have disclosed a series of stable and one-dimensionally pi-extended carbocations with silicon-bridged diazulenyl-methyl cations. Connecting nonbenzenoid azulenes to a carbocation center at an appropriate position and reinforcing a planar arrangement effectively delocalizes a positive charge over the pi-conjugated skeleton. This study demonstrates the impact of the nonbenzenoid aromatic stabilization of a carbocation and the efficacy of the present design strategy for the construction of a promising pi-extended cationic motif that can form NIR-absorbing and emissive J-aggregates.
We disclose a series of silicon-bridged diazulenyl-methyl cations as stable and one-dimensionally pi-extended carbocations. Connecting nonbenzenoid azulenes to a carbocation center at an appropriate position while reinforcing a planar arrangement effectively delocalizes a positive charge over the pi- conjugated skeleton. This structural constraint endows the carbocations with not only high chemical stability with the pKR+ value of around 9.5, despite the absence of any electron-donating substituents, but also an intense absorption in the red region due to the effective enhancement of the transition dipole moment. X-ray crystallographic analysis revealed an offset pi-stacked arrangement with the outer seven-membered ring overlapping in a face-to-face manner, in which both the steric bulk of the vertically oriented substituents on the silicon atom and the location of the counter anion should play a crucial role. Reflecting this molecular arrangement, the pi-extended cations exhibited a red-shifted absorption in the near-infrared (NIR) region in both the solid state and aggregated state in solution, indicative of the formation of J-aggregates. More pronounced redshifts in the absorption band upon the formation of the aggregates were observed by proper choice of the substituents on the silicon bridge and the counter anions, and the aggregates exhibited sharp fluorescence bands with the maximum emission wavelength exceeding 800 nm. These results demonstrate the impact of the nonbenzenoid aromatic stabilization of a carbocation and the efficacy of the present design strategy for the construction of a promising pi-extended cationic motif that can form NIR-absorbing and emissive J-aggregates.
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