Small anion-assisted electrochemical potential splitting in a new series of bistriarylamine derivatives: organic mixed valency across a urea bridge and zwitterionization

• Keishiro Tahara,
• Tetsufumi Nakakita,
• Alyona A. Starikova,
• Takashi Ikeda,
• Masaaki Abe and
• Jun-ichi Kikuchi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2277–2286, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.220

• intervalence charge transfer characteristics of the zwitterionic MV state. Keywords: anion binding; electrochemistry; hydrogen bonding; triarylamine; urea; zwitterionic mixed valency; Introduction Mixed-valence (MV) compounds have received increasing attention from the viewpoint of fundamental research on