Bistability between $π$-diradical open-shell and closed-shell states in indeno[1,2-a]fluorene
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| author | Mishra, Shantanu Vilas-Varela, Manuel Lieske, Leonard-Alexander Ortiz, Ricardo Fatayer, Shadi Rončević, Igor Albrecht, Florian Frederiksen, Thomas Peña, Diego Gross, Leo |
| author_facet | Mishra, Shantanu Vilas-Varela, Manuel Lieske, Leonard-Alexander Ortiz, Ricardo Fatayer, Shadi Rončević, Igor Albrecht, Florian Frederiksen, Thomas Peña, Diego Gross, Leo |
| contents | Indenofluorenes are non-benzenoid conjugated hydrocarbons that have received great interest owing to their unusual electronic structure and potential applications in non-linear optics and photovoltaics. Here, we report the generation of unsubstituted indeno[1,2-a]fluorene, the final and yet unreported parent indenofluorene isomer, on various surfaces by cleavage of two C-H bonds in 7,12-dihydroindeno[1,2-a]fluorene through voltage pulses applied by the tip of a combined scanning tunneling microscope and atomic force microscope. On bilayer NaCl on Au(111), indeno[1,2-a]fluorene is in the neutral charge state, while it exhibits charge bistability between neutral and anionic states on the lower work function surfaces of bilayer NaCl on Ag(111) and Cu(111). In the neutral state, indeno[1,2-a]fluorene exhibits either of two ground states: an open-shell pi-diradical state, predicted to be a triplet by density functional and multireference many-body perturbation theory calculations, or a closed-shell state with a para-quinodimethane moiety in the as-indacene core. Switching between open- and closed-shell states of a single molecule is observed by changing its adsorption site on NaCl. |
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| spellingShingle | Bistability between $π$-diradical open-shell and closed-shell states in indeno[1,2-a]fluorene Mishra, Shantanu Vilas-Varela, Manuel Lieske, Leonard-Alexander Ortiz, Ricardo Fatayer, Shadi Rončević, Igor Albrecht, Florian Frederiksen, Thomas Peña, Diego Gross, Leo Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Indenofluorenes are non-benzenoid conjugated hydrocarbons that have received great interest owing to their unusual electronic structure and potential applications in non-linear optics and photovoltaics. Here, we report the generation of unsubstituted indeno[1,2-a]fluorene, the final and yet unreported parent indenofluorene isomer, on various surfaces by cleavage of two C-H bonds in 7,12-dihydroindeno[1,2-a]fluorene through voltage pulses applied by the tip of a combined scanning tunneling microscope and atomic force microscope. On bilayer NaCl on Au(111), indeno[1,2-a]fluorene is in the neutral charge state, while it exhibits charge bistability between neutral and anionic states on the lower work function surfaces of bilayer NaCl on Ag(111) and Cu(111). In the neutral state, indeno[1,2-a]fluorene exhibits either of two ground states: an open-shell pi-diradical state, predicted to be a triplet by density functional and multireference many-body perturbation theory calculations, or a closed-shell state with a para-quinodimethane moiety in the as-indacene core. Switching between open- and closed-shell states of a single molecule is observed by changing its adsorption site on NaCl. |
| title | Bistability between $π$-diradical open-shell and closed-shell states in indeno[1,2-a]fluorene |
| topic | Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.04483 |