Vasu Malhotra, Benedict J. Elvers, Ramapada Dolai, Nicolas Chrysochos, Siva Sankar Murthy Bandaru, Tejaswinee Gangber, Neethinathan Johnee Britto, Ivo Krummenacher, Gopalan Rajaraman, Holger Braunschweig, Carola Schulzke, Anukul Jana
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Herein, we report nickel(0)-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions of NHC/CAAC-based carbodicarbene (NHC = N-heterocyclic carbene and CAAC = cyclic(alkyl)(amino)carbene) with different aryl chlorides, bromides, and iodides. The resulting aryl-substituted cationic carbodicarbene derivatives are prone to one-electron oxidation yielding radical-dications, which, depending on the aryl motif employed, follow different modes of radical–radical dimerization and constitute an entry point to carbon/nitrogen- and nitrogen/nitrogen-centered diradicaloids. Subsequently, this coupling strategy was strategically applied to the synthesis of p-phenylene- and p,p′-biphenylene-bridged carbon/carbon-centered electron-deficient diradicaloids. The employed π-conjugated spacer plays a crucial role in determining the triplet population at room temperature by modulation of the singlet–triplet gap: EPR inactive for p-phenylene vs EPR active for p,p′-biphenylene. Nearly two decades after the disclosure of carbodicarbenes as donor-stabilized atomic carbon equivalents by Tonner and Frenking in 2007, we demonstrate their cross-couplings with a series of aryl halides/dihalides and, based on this, developed a modular methodology for the systematic synthesis of various electron-deficient diradicaloids.
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