Stable tetrabenzo-chichibabin’s hydrocarbons : tunable ground state and unusual transition between their closed-shell and open-shell resonance forms

• Main Authors: Zeng, Zebing, Sung, Young Mo, Bao, Nina, Tan, Davin, Lee, Richmond, Zafra, José L., Lee, Byung Sun, Ishida, Masatoshi, Ding, Jun, López Navarrete, Juan T., Li, Yuan, Zeng, Wangdong, Kim, Dongho, Huang, Kuo-Wei, Webster, Richard David, Casado, Juan, Wu, Jishan
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/97613; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/11221
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Stable open-shell polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are of fundamental interest due to their unique electronic, optical, and magnetic properties and promising applications in materials sciences. Chichibabin’s hydrocarbon as a classical open-shell PAH has been investigated for a long time. Howe...