Heptacene

Heptacene is an organic compound and a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon and the seventh member of the acene or polyacene family of linear fused benzene rings. This compound has long been pursued by chemists because of its potential interest in electronic applications and was first synthesized but not cleanly isolated in 2006. Heptacene was finally fully characterized in bulk by researchers in Germany and the United States in 2017.

Heptacene
Names
Preferred IUPAC name
Heptacene
Identifiers
3D model (JSmol)
ChemSpider
PubChem CID
UNII
  • InChI=1S/C30H18/c1-2-6-20-10-24-14-28-18-30-16-26-12-22-8-4-3-7-21(22)11-25(26)15-29(30)17-27(28)13-23(24)9-19(20)5-1/h1-18H
SMILES
  • c1cc2cc3cc4cc5cc6cc7ccccc7cc6cc5cc4cc3cc2ccc1
Properties
C30H18
Molar mass 378.474 g·mol−1
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).
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The final step is a photochemical decarbonylization with a 1,2-dione bridge extruded as carbon monoxide. In solution heptacene is not formed because it is very unstable being a reactive DA diene and quickly reacts with oxygen or forms dimers. When on the other hand the dione precursor is dissolved in a PMMA matrix first, heptacene can be studied by spectroscopy. Heptacene has been studied spectroscopically at cryogenic temperatures in a matrix. When dissolved in sulfuric acid the heptacene dication is reported to be stable at room-temperature for more than a year in absence of oxygen. "[Isolated] solid heptacene has a half-life time of several weeks at room temperature."

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