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CHEMICAL SCIENCE
Volume 10, Issue 22, Pages 5719-5724Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c9sc01502g
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- Marie Sklodowska-Curie program [665667]
- Swiss National Science Foundation
- Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)
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The synthesis of the industrially important polymer parylene is achieved by polymerization of p-quinodimethane (p-QDM). The polymerization is thought to proceed via a biradical p-QDM dimer, but isolation or characterization of such a biradical has remained elusive. Here, we describe the synthesis of an aza-analogue of this p-QDM dimer. The biradical is formed by base-induced dimerization of an azoimidazolium dye. Due to the presence of sterically shielded aminyl radicals instead of terminal H2C groups, the stability of this dimer is sufficient for analyses by ESR spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography. A similar Csp(3)-Csp(3) coupling was observed for an azotriazolium dye, suggesting that base-induced C-C coupling reactions can be realized for different types of azo dyes.
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