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Inside Back Cover: Orientational Preference of Long, Multicenter Bonds in Radical Anion Dimers: A Case Study of π‐[TCNB] 2 2− and π‐[TCNP] 2 2− (Chem. Eur. J. 17/2015)
Author(s) -
CapdevilaCortada Marçal,
Miller Joel S.,
Novoa Juan J.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201590070
Subject(s) - ion , rationalization (economics) , crystallography , cover (algebra) , radical ion , chemistry , philosophy , organic chemistry , engineering , mechanical engineering , epistemology
As a train that has a choice of which fork to take at a junction, so a single radical anion also has a choice to make as to which packing preferences take precedent in their solid‐state structures, guided only by its knowledge about the shape of the E int ( θ ) curve and MEP potential (after all, its interaction is dominated by the electrostatic component). The rationalization of the different orientational preferences of π‐[TCNP] 2 2− and π‐[TCNB] 2 2− in their observed structure is the focus the work reported by M. Capdevila‐Cortada, J. S. Miller, and J. J. Novoa in the Full Paper on page 6420 ff. They have attempted to find the keys that govern their orientational preferences and those of (radical anion) ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ (radical anion) interactions.