K. Furukawa et al., ELECTRONIC AND MOLECULAR-STRUCTURE OF ROOM-TEMPERATURE STABLE TRIPLETCARBENE AS STUDIED BY ESR SPECTROSCOPY, Molecular crystals and liquid crystals science and technology. Section A, Molecular crystals and liquid crystals, 278, 1996, pp. 271-278
A ground-state tripler diphenylcarbene derivative, 2,2',4,4',6,6'-hexa
bromodiphenylcarbene 1 was synthesized and generated to be a model for
chemically stable organic high-spin molecules. Electron Spin Resonanc
e spectroscopy showed that 1 was a tripler molecule in the ground stat
e and survived up to room temperature in the crystal state. 1 is the f
irst stable tripler carbene in fluid solution at low temperature and i
n the crystal state at room temperature.