Shantanu Mishra^1*, Kun Xu², Kristjan Eimre¹, Komber Hartmut³, Ji Ma², Carlo A. Pignedoli¹, Roman Fasel^1,4, Xinliang Feng², Pascal Ruffieux^1*

1 Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland

2 Faculty of Chemistry and Food Chemistry, and Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden, Technical University of Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany

3 Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e. V., Hohe Straße 6, 01069 Dresden, Germany

4 Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bern, 3012, Bern, Switzerland

* Corresponding authors emails: shantanu.mishra@empa.ch, pascal.ruffieux@empa.ch

DOI10.24435/materialscloud:av-cy [version v1]

Publication date: Oct 28, 2021

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Shantanu Mishra, Kun Xu, Kristjan Eimre, Komber Hartmut, Ji Ma, Carlo A. Pignedoli, Roman Fasel, Xinliang Feng, Pascal Ruffieux, Synthesis and characterization of [7]triangulene, Materials Cloud Archive 2021.173 (2021), doi: 10.24435/materialscloud:av-cy.

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In this record we provide data to support our recent findings related to the fabrication of [7]triangulene. Triangulene and its π-extended homologues constitute non-Kekulé polyradical frameworks with high-spin ground states, and are anticipated to be key components of organic spintronic devices. In our publication we report a combined in-solution and on-surface synthesis of the hitherto largest triangulene homologue, [7]triangulene (C78H24), consisting of twenty-eight benzenoid rings fused in a triangular fashion. We employ low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy to confirm the chemical structure of individual molecules adsorbed on a Cu(111) surface. While neutral [7]triangulene in the gas phase is predicted to have an open-shell septet ground state; our scanning tunneling spectroscopy measurements, in combination with density functional theory calculations, reveal chemisorption of [7]triangulene on Cu(111) together with considerable charge transfer, resulting in a closed-shell state. Furthermore, substantial hybridization between the molecular orbitals of [7]triangulene is observed.

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triangulene nanographene DFT MARVEL/DD3 SNSF ERC Horizon 2020 Graphene flagship