<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kundu, Gargi</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">De, Sriman</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tothadi, Srinu</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Das, Abhishek</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Koley, Debasis</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sen, Sakya S.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Saturated N-heterocyclic carbene based thiele's hydrocarbon with a tetrafluorophenylene linker</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Chemistry-A European Journal</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">C-F activation</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Density functional calculations</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">fluorine</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kekule diradicaloids</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">saturated NHC</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2019</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">NOV</style></date></pub-dates></dates><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;The synthesis of a SIPr [1,3-bis(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)-imidazolin-2-ylidene] derived Kekule diradicaloid with a tetrafluorophenylene spacer (3) has been described. Two synthetic routes have been reported to access 3. The cleavage of C-F bond of C6F6 by SIPr in the presence of BF3 led to double C-F activated compound with two tetrafluoro borate counter anions (2), which upon reduction by lithium metal afforded 3. Alternatively, 3 can be directly accessed in one step by reacting SIPr with C6F6 in presence of Mg metal. Compounds 2 and 3 were well characterized spectroscopically and by single-crystal X-ray diffraction studies. Experimental and computational studies support the cumulenic closed-shell singlet state of 3 with a singlet-triplet energy gap (Delta ES-T) of 23.7 kcal mol(-1).&lt;/p&gt;
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