Structure, Dynamics and Reactivity in the Organic Solid State: Anthracene Derivatives and Charge Transfer Crystals

Salzillo, Tommaso (2015) Structure, Dynamics and Reactivity in the Organic Solid State: Anthracene Derivatives and Charge Transfer Crystals , [Dissertation thesis], Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna. Dottorato di ricerca in Chimica, 27 Ciclo. DOI 10.6092/unibo/amsdottorato/6882.
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Abstract

The work presented in this thesis tackles some important points concerning the collective properties of two typical categories of molecular crystals, i.e., anthracene derivatives and charge transfer crystals. Anthracene derivatives have constituted the class of materials from which systematical investigations of crystal-to-crystal photodimerization reactions started, developed and have been the subject of a new awakening in the recent years. In this work some of these compounds, namely, 9-cyanoanthacene, 9-anthacenecarboxylic acid and 9-methylanthracene, have been selected as model systems for a phenomenological approach to some key properties of the solid state, investigated by spectroscopic methods. The present results show that, on the basis of the solid state organization and the chemical nature of each compound, photo-reaction dynamics and kinetics display distinctive behaviors, which allows for a classification of the various processes in topochemical, non topochemical, reversible or topophysical. The second part of the thesis was focused on charge transfer crystals, binary systems formed by stoichiometric combinations of the charge donating perylene (D) and the charge accepting tetracyano-quinodimethane (A), this latter also in its fluorinated derivatives. The work was focused on the growth of single crystals, some of which not yet reported in the literature, by PVT technique. Structural and spectroscopic characterizations have been performed, with the aim of determining the degree of charge transfer between donor and acceptor in the co-crystals. An interesting outcome of the systematic search performed in this work is the definition of the experimental conditions which drive the crystal growth of the binary systems either towards the low (1:1) or the high ratio (3:1 or 3:2) stoichiometries.

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Tipologia del documento
Tesi di dottorato
Autore
Salzillo, Tommaso
Supervisore
Co-supervisore
Dottorato di ricerca
Scuola di dottorato
Scienze chimiche
Ciclo
27
Coordinatore
Settore disciplinare
Settore concorsuale
Parole chiave
Anthracene derivatives, 9-anthracenecarboxylic acid, 9-cyanoanthracene, anthraquinone, dinitroanthracene, 9-methylanthracene, Raman spectroscopy, Infrared spectroscopy, organic semiconductors, charge transfer crystals, molecular crystals, polymorphism, lattice phonons, pseudo-polymorphism.
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DOI
10.6092/unibo/amsdottorato/6882
Data di discussione
29 Aprile 2015
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