(9,10-Dihydro-9,10-o-benzeno-2,6-anthrylene)di(phenylmethylene): a ground state quintet molecule
Abstract
The title molecule, which has two diphenylmethylene moieties in a rigid triptycene skeleton, is photochemically generated from the corresponding diazo compound at cryogenic temperature in an ESR cavity, and the ESR spectra is identified with a quintet ground state, with ZFS parameters, |D|/hc= 0.0665 and |E|/hc= 0.0043 cm–1, respectively.