F. Cherioux et al., SYNTHESIS, ELECTROCHEMICAL PROPERTIES, AND MOLECULAR COMPUTATIONS OF NEW TRIS(THIENYL)METHYL CATIONS, Advanced materials, 10(13), 1998, pp. 1013
New octupolar bithiophenic methyl rations belonging to the Crystal Vio
let family are described (see Figure). The synthesis and electrochemic
al properties of these cations, which should combine the second-order
nonlinear optical properties of Crystal Violet with the electrochemica
l properties of heterocycles, are reported along with the findings fro
m molecular computations.