Maskey Rezisha, Wadepohl Hubert, Greb Lutz
Anorganisch-Chemisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 270, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany.
Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2019 Mar 11;58(11):3616-3619. doi: 10.1002/anie.201812989. Epub 2019 Jan 25.
The reaction of ortho-quinones with silicon tetraiodide leads to neutral silicon trisdioxolenes in high yield, delivering the unknown oxidized form of triscatecholatosilicate dianions and the first example of open-shell semiquinonates connected via a single non-metal center. Silicon tris(perchloro)dioxolene is a stable diradical with a triplet ground state, as supported by X-ray diffraction; IR, resonance Raman, UV/Vis, and (VT)EPR spectroscopy; and Kohn-Sham broken-symmetry computations. Preliminary results suggest that the preferred magnetic ground state can be altered through variation of the substituents.
