T. Akita et al., INTRAMOLECULAR SPIN INTERACTIONS BETWEEN 2 RADICAL UNITS THROUGH ISOMERIC CHROMOPHORES, THIENO[3,2-B]THIOPHENE AND THIENO[2,3-B]THIOPHENE, Tetrahedron letters, 36(31), 1995, pp. 5543-5546
Diradical species which bear two nitronyl nitroxide groups or two imin
o nitroxide groups on thieno[3,2-b]thiophene and thieno[2,3-b] thiophe
ne, respectively, were studied in a frozen solution by means of ESR sp
ectroscopy to show those are the ground-state singlet species.