Synthesis and structures of polyiodide radical cation salts of donors combining tetrathiafulvalene with multiple thiophene or oligo-thiophene substituents

Abstract

The preparation and structures of the radical cation salts of a series of new TTF-based donors bearing thiophene or oligothiophene side chains with polyiodide counterions are described.

Words in supramolecular chemistry: the ineffable advances of polyiodide chemistry

“…We make only a brief mention of these studies here, as these authors have already produced a remarkable review illustrating their ideas for moulding polyiodide frameworks around ligands or metal complexes designed for the task: the reader is gladly directed to this first-hand account. 133 As the number of noteworthy supramolecular polyiodide architectures expands, the influence of these reports in our own and other research groups' latest contributions 134,135 is manifest.…”

Anion⋯anion self-assembly under the control of σ- and π-hole bonds

“…Consequently, I 5 À and I 7 À anions self-assemble into adducts preferentially adopting an orthogonal binding geometry similar to that described above for the I 3 À anion. Discrete supramolecular polyanions, 103,104 infinite chains, [105][106][107] (Fig. 5C and E) or even more complex topologies 108 (Fig.…”