Issue 30, 2015

Spatially inhomogeneous, stepwise phase transitions in a thiazyl diradical: a structural mismatch induced by lattice transformation

Abstract

A heterocyclic thiazyl diradical, bis(1,2,3,5-dithiadiazolyl)-4,4′-biphenylene (1), was synthesized, and its structural and thermodynamic properties were characterized. This compound exhibits unique spatially inhomogeneous, first-order phase transitions at 306 and 359 K, in a stepwise fashion. The unit cell in the high-temperature phase above 359 K consists of four regular π-stacking columns with the same stacking manners having a uniform interplanar distance d. These four columns are connected by intermolecular S⋯S and S⋯N contacts between the thiazyl radical moieties, but the molecular planes are shifted by a distance of d/4 due to a steric hindrance between the bulky biphenylene moieties. Below 359 K, three of the four stacking columns exhibit structural transitions toward zigzag chain structures, formed by an alternating dimerization between the radical moieties, while one column maintains the uniform π stacking. In the low-temperature phase below 306 K, the last column finally exhibits the radical dimerization toward a zigzag chain structure. These unique phase transitions in 1 can be understood in terms of the stepwise transitions from a “dimer liquid” to a “dimer solid” through a “dimer soliton phase”.

Graphical abstract: Spatially inhomogeneous, stepwise phase transitions in a thiazyl diradical: a structural mismatch induced by lattice transformation

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
18 may 2015
Accepted
28 iyn 2015
First published
01 iyl 2015

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2015,3, 7968-7977

Author version available

Spatially inhomogeneous, stepwise phase transitions in a thiazyl diradical: a structural mismatch induced by lattice transformation

R. Suizu, A. Iwasaki, Y. Shuku and K. Awaga, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2015, 3, 7968 DOI: 10.1039/C5TC01410G

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