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1,2,3-Dithiazolyl and 1,2,35-Dithiadiazolyl Radicals as Spin-Bearing ...

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16a) which h<strong>as</strong> a slightly larger distance at 3.48 Å. 75 While quite a bit longer than the<br />

average, this intermolecular separation is still within the sum of the van der Waals radii<br />

of two sulfur atoms. Interestingly this compound exhibits some paramagnetism at room<br />

temperature although with a value which is only consistent with 30% unpaired spins <strong>and</strong><br />

the susceptibility drops off rapidly with temperature <strong>and</strong> is completely diamagnetic at 200<br />

K. Similarly a difluorinated radical I-16b w<strong>as</strong> found to have an intermolecular S-S<br />

contact of 3.54 Å. This compound w<strong>as</strong> originally reported to not form dimers, but a<br />

regular π-stacked motif along the [001] direction, with the same distance repeated<br />

between each radical unit. 76<br />

The magnetic susceptibility however revealed that this<br />

compound w<strong>as</strong> diamagnetic across the entire temperature regime investigated <strong>and</strong> it w<strong>as</strong><br />

later determined that it actually existed in a superlattice <strong>and</strong> that there were in fact<br />

superimposed π-stacked dimers clustered around a 4-fold screw axis in a pin-wheel type<br />

arrangement. 77 I-16a I-16b<br />

Several attempts have been made to prevent dimerization by introducing a cationic<br />

component into the radical framework, in the hopes that the coulombic repulsion would<br />

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