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Persulfurated Aromatic Compounds
Author(s) -
Gingras Marc,
Raimundo JeanManuel,
Chabre Yoann M.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200500032
Subject(s) - supramolecular chemistry , redox , divalent , sulfur , chemistry , aromaticity , nonlinear optical , metal , carbon fibers , combinatorial chemistry , crystallography , photochemistry , inorganic chemistry , materials science , molecule , organic chemistry , crystal structure , nonlinear system , physics , quantum mechanics , composite number , composite material
Persulfurated arenes have been known for about 50 years but they were underexploited in chemistry in spite of facile, mild, and high‐yielding syntheses. Their properties (redox potentials, UV/Vis absorption, conductivity, nonlinear optical properties, etc.) are mainly due to the aromaticity of the ring with sp 2 ‐hybridized carbon atoms and to the electronic contribution from numerous divalent sulfur ligands, which also stabilize negative or positive charges. The characteristic conformational patterns of the sulfur ligands often facilitate preorganization in supramolecular assemblies, with or without thiophilic metal cations, for designing redox sensors, ion‐selective membranes, clathrates, organic conductors, nonlinear optical materials, liquid crystals, coordination polymers, and bioinorganic systems. A new class of supramolecules with various molecular shapes such as asterisks, chains, wheels, and windmills were reported.